Occupational stress and mindfulness: an empirical study

Purpose- There is a need for organizations to be innovative and keep on adapting changes new circumstances in today’s highly competitive world. Accordingly, some challenges emerged both employees the situations as well work-related daily routine tasks. Adaptation coping capabilities of have become an essential part work environment. These created stress among employees, affecting their personal lives business lives. A concept “Mindfulness” that enables people flexible adaptable adverse environments, this, turn, reduces people’s levels used life well. The purpose this paper explore factors employees’ occupational clarify using mindfulness during turbulent times. Methodology- are qualitative quantitative studies about psychology disciplines. This research consists extensive literature review regarding found literature, including employee cooping terms mindfulness, empirical field study applied through experimental group. They had eight-week MBSR course survey before after training, 2021. data from was analyzed SPSS 25 program. Findings- According increased because many like workload, time pressures deadlines, extended working hours, work/family conflict, environment uncertainty general. On other hand, with two crucial: well-being resilience at work. supported training level while increasing levels. Conclusion- encourages Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs challenging times when there high stress. Experiential interventions demonstrate serves reduce improve resilience. Keywords: Stress, resilience, well-being, capability. JEL Codes: M10, M12, M19