Análise do nível de estresse em um escritório de arquitetura

Abstract

Nowadays we are experiencing rapid changes in our societies, cultures, and values. The work also is being transformed regarding both its environment (physical and functional) and content. The banking and financial crisis that began in 2008 in the United States has grown into a global crisis. Nowadays people have to work harder than ever, but receiving little compensation (in terms of finances and recognition). People are suffering from work overload, financial problems, living in an uncertainty about the future. All these pressures become a syndrome, known worldwide as stress. The main objective of this study is to evaluate and analyze the stress level of architects in an architecture office in the city of Curitiba. Survey of Stress Symptoms of the Psychological Center for Stress Control of Sao Paulo was used in obtaining the relevant results. Analyzing the results it was observed that all respondents have some symptoms of stress. It was noted that the number of symptoms, depending on the position of employees, also depends on years of experience of a professional. So the most senior and most experienced employees are experiencing symptoms that can be attributed mainly to the alarm phase and some to the phase of resistance, and low positions showed a higher incidence of symptoms attributed mainly to the resistance phase and some to the phase of exhaustion.