The research, conducted by CV-Library, also found that 70% of workers in the hospitality sector feel overworked, whilst 8.7% admitted to not knowing how to deal with stress.
Lee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library, said: “It’s worrying that such a large proportion of hospitality workers suffer from stress, which is being caused by strained situations in the workplace.
What’s more concerning is the negative stigma attached to stress that prevents employees from being honest with their boss. Staff often feel that admitting to feeling overworked or pressured will automatically create assumptions around their ability to do a job; for the benefit of both workers and businesses, this attitude needs to change.”
When it comes to assessing the biggest causes of stress in the hospitality sector, feeling overworked came on top, with an overwhelming 70.3% of employees believing they don’t have enough time in the day to complete basic tasks.
Other reasons are dealing with poor management (33.7%), working with lazy colleagues (19.1%), unrealistic workloads (16.8%) and taking on big projects (10%).
The most common ways of dealing with stress for workers is to talk with friends and family (40.5%) and speaking with management (38.7%), over one in 10 (13.1%) workers choose to have a few drinks to deal with stress, whilst 8.7% choose to comfort eat.
Over a third (38.1%) of employees who take time off due to stress are too scared to tell their boss that this was the cause of absence.
National Stress Awareness Day takes place on Wednesday 4th November and is organised by the International Stress Management Association.
CV-Library is an online jobs website, founded by Lee Biggins in 2000, with a database of over 9.3 million CVs.