The main reason of stress is to expect, desire or want something that is usually beyond your control
It may be personal or professional. The level of stress is determined by gap created between your means and your expectation. The more the gap, the more will be the stress and vice versa. This idea can be applied almost anywhere and everywhere. Stress level is reduced slowly when you make effort to minimize the gap. The effort comes from your instinct and intuition and most often you know whether you can achieve those expectations or not.

In the organizations, usually set targets are imaginary and difficult to achieve. Employees have to face constant pressure to fulfill the target. This wrong perceived notion that target can be achieved by compelling and forcing employees to maximum possible level to achieve the result create huge amount of stress and unfortunately organization loses its people to other organizations. Employees look for better environment where they are assigned task that is achievable and within
their reach.

The amount of stress can also be measured in terms of attrition. In India in any marketing jobs, people are expected to achieve tasks that requires more than 24 hours in a day and when they find it difficult with continuous negative feedback they decide to quit. Today attrition in marketing and sales related job is more than any other segment. What is the reason for that ? You can imagine.