in moderate amounts stress can
be benign, even beneficial, and most people are
equipped to deal with it. However, increasing levels of
stress can rapidly lead to low employee morale, poor
productivity, and decreasing job satisfaction. Some of
the specific symptoms that relate directly to productivity
in the work environment are abuse of sick time,
cheating, chronic absenteeism, distrust, embezzlement,
organizational sabotage, tardiness, task avoidance,
and violence in the workplace.
Different employee may have to work in different ways for completion of their tasks and responsibilities in an organization. Depending on the requirements, excessive working hours could be subdivided into various categories. Some of them are mentioned as following: