• Vidhya.R
• Dr. J.JAYAKUMAR

Occupational stress or workplace stress refers to the stress experienced as a direct result of a person’s occupation. An occupation is work that is done in exchange for a regular wage. Pressure at the workplace is unavoidable due to the demands of the contemporary work environment. Stress is the single most common ailment in the workforce today and the one that causes thousands of hours if sick leave, sick pay, lost revenue and profitability. One of the main problems with work related stress in that most people are unaware of its existence and take no corrective steps until the condition becomes serious. Paradoxically, most people attend to a trivial cough, a bad throat or a headache immediately but stress related conditions are often left unattended as it is seen as an insignia of weakness. Stress and anxiety are linked to heart conditions, strokes, back problems, recurring colds and infections. Stress also affects the ability to think rationally and logically. The demographics of the unorganized sector are not available in literature. Due to the difficulties in conducting research in the unorganized sector, researchers have tried targeting specific population subsets for conducting their research. Even though this is not ideal, for want of better methods, this approach appears to be the plausible method at present to conduct research in unorganized sector. Construction workers from the majority of the unorganized sector in our country.

Pressure, Occupational stress, unorganized sector, construction Workers

"Occupational Stress among Unorganized Sector Special Reference With Construction Workers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.f313-f318, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203540.pdf

"Occupational Stress among Unorganized Sector Special Reference With Construction Workers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppf313-f318, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203540.pdf