MESSAGING
STRESS

Topics: Ambition; Business; Busyness; Career; Communication; Competition; Emptiness; Jobs; Lifestyle; Pressure; Sabbath; Stress; Weariness; Work

References: Exodus 20:8–11; 23:12; Psalm 127:2; Matthew 11:28–30; 13:22; Luke 21:34; Philippians 4:6–7

The average office gets 220 messages a day in emails, memos, phone calls, interruptions, and ads.

No wonder a survey of 1,313 managers on four continents found that “one-third of managers suffer from ill health as a direct consequence of stress associated with information overload. This figure increases to 43 percent among senior managers.”

—Kevin Miller, “Managing Chaos,” Christian Management Report (June 2006)