which show a increased level of stress in the morning interval would increase, as they could show up
at work in a rhythm which fit them, and then compensate by working longer in the afternoon. Of
course it needs to be clarified if the factors which
cause the stress would be removed/diminished by
this – like for example wild night life, B-person
sleeping behavior, traffic, etc. – or if it would just
be moved from one end of the working day to the
other – like for example children; it may be equally
stressful to have to pick them up at an institution
in the evening before it closes, as to bring them
there in the morning. (At least those are the considerations of the author who has no children.)
Thus, given the large part of the employees at
company A, which manifest increased stress in the
morning, it seems reasonable to assume that company A would profit by trying – if possible – to adapt its work program to the needs of its
employees.
A few people have shown an increase in their
stress level at the end of the workday compared
with the beginning of it. It may not be practically
reasonable, nor profitable, to aim at everybody being more relaxed at the end of the workday, and as
the general level of stress is reasonable this may
not constitute any major concern for company A.
Energy
The first graph shows that clearly the morning
measurement (the 9.00 o’clock) – again – is the one
deviating most from the norm. This is followed by
the next measurement, the 11.00 o’clock, which is,
for all but one, lower, if not much lower, than the
norm. Then starting with the 13.00 o’clock measurement each participant seems to have found
his/her level, which doesn’t vary much for the rest
of that working day.
Whether or not that level is ideal for top performance needs to be clarified by further scientific studies. It may be that a person can not support being
at such a level of energy for longer periods at a
time. This also requires further scientific studies to
clarify. However, should that be the case, then suggestions offered by for example Schwartz, Gomes
and McCarthy (2010), Groppel and Andelman
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