title: [Stress management for office workers].
abstract: The environment which surrounds office workers has undergone a big transformation with the collapse of lifetime employment, the shift from the long employment principle to meritocracy, the results principle, the introduction of flexible work hours, outsourcing and dispatch work. Today's office worker stressor include 1. VDT work, 2. meritocracy, 3. management by objective, 4. excessive load on the middle and advanced age generations, 5. the collapse of the lifetime employment system and 6. non-employee changes. (1) VDT work management, (2) the use of Information technology, (3) Improvement of office environments, (4) Management of long overtime work and (5) Support of superiors and colleagues are thought as stress management.
authors.affiliation: Hitachi Health Care Center, 3-16, Ose 4-chome, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, 317-0076, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayashi
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D016288:Computer Terminals; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance; D017132:Workplace