Which jobs are the least stressful? That is the question business consulting firm Biz Hits asked working people in Japan, and some of their answers may seem surprising. Reported in Japan Today, the poll reveals that Japan’s workers consider warehouse and factory jobs to be the lowest-stress occupations, partly due to the lack of competition between coworkers.
The Japanese company Biz Hits polled 532 working men and women across the country, asking about their stress levels and sources of stress, as well as what jobs they had done. The survey, carried out on Oct. 17 to 29, first looked at the factors that could make a given job feel stressful.
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