Workplace Stress amongst Consultants in Practice

Designer job routine is to stimulate and produce new-creative ideas that sometimes causes stress and affect work performance. This paper aims to identify the causes and effects of workplace stress amongst designers. Questionnaire was distributed among 500 designers in Klang Valley. With the response rate of 38% of the samples, findings show that they were generally enjoyed their work but sometimes feel stress due to poor planning and job demand, working surrounding and relationship among staff. This lead to the effect of bad designs and sometimes gives bad effects t o the performance of the designers.