Hawaii Has the Least Stress in America — What State Has the Most?
The surf may be up in Hawaii, but blood pressure definitely isn’t.
The surf may be up in Hawaii, but blood pressure definitely isn’t.
So, you say work has got you stressed out. There's good news -- you're not alone.
More importantly, you're not helpless, either.
Whether you’re preparing for final exams, avoiding a trampling at the mall or a gearing up for an extended visit from the in-laws, the month of December can be grueling. Sure, there’s the holiday spirit or whatever, but somehow this time of year isn’t as fun as when you were a kid, when your biggest worries were cutting snowflakes out of construction paper and remembering to not lick telephone poles.
In the first-ever historical comparison of stress levels across the US, researchers have now determined what many of us have suspected: adults are a lot more stressed out now than they were just 25 years ago.
The eight-hour workday is fairly standard in the United States, and this week (June 19) marked the 100th anniversary of it becoming law for federal workers back in 1912.
Private companies began to follow suit four years later, but these days, working only eight hours a day sometimes seems downright quaint.