HBR Guide to Managing Stress

Your Tips on What Your Company or Manager Can Do to Help Employees Manage Stress

We recently hosted a discussion on managing stress with our LinkedIn Harvard Business Review group and had an #HBRchat with the followers of HBRExchange on Twitter. Here’s a sample of the ideas you, our community of readers, have on the ways in which your company and your manager can help you manage stress.

• If managers participate in yoga, and so on [health programs that companies offer], then [employees] know it’s okay [to participate]. Or declare that time a meeting-free time [so employees won’t feel guilty about taking advantage of the program]. —Posted by @KristinMaschka via
• Stress is caused when you feel like you have no control. A manager’s job is to relieve ...