Companies promote stress

relief to recruits and

veteran workers

By Wang Wei (China Daily)

Updated: 2009-12-16 08:02

Stress management is becoming a vital part of a company's training package to help staff cope with pressure at the workplace.

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More than 100 companies in Beijing, including State-run companies and multinationals, have received stress management trainings from Beijing youth stress management service center, according to its director Xiong Hanzhong.

Xiong said the classes use role play to analyze personality, as well as incorporating music and pictures.

China Life Insurance Group, for example, has made stress management training part of the standard orientation program for new staff.

A member of the company's HR team surnamed Jiang said that most of their new employees are university graduates who can feel overwhelmed by pressure from clients and sales quotas. "Those who cannot handle the situation often quit or waste time at work," she said.

They can be better workers after learning how to handle stress, Jiang said.

Yu Yang, a saleswoman who has worked at China Life for two years, said she had attended four sessions of stress management and learnt to care about the process instead of the final results. "It is helpful, I am more confident and positive both at work and life now," she said.

For experienced employees, China Life provides stress management training sessions every six months, she said.

It gives them a chance to understand their goals, at work and in life, she added.

(China Daily 12/16/2009 page28)