Quantifying the impact of positive stress on companies from online employee reviews.

ABSTRACT: Workplace stress is often considered to be negative, yet lab studies on individuals suggest that not all stress is bad. There are two types of stress: distress refers to harmful stimuli, while eustress refers to healthy, euphoric stimuli that create a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Telling the two types of stress apart is challenging, let alone quantifying their impact across corporations. By leveraging a dataset of 440 K reviews about S &P 500 companies published during twelve successive years, we developed a deep learning framework to extract stress mentions from these reviews. We proposed a new methodology that places each company on a stress-by-rating quadrant (based on its overall stress score and overall rating on the site), and accordingly scores the company to be, on average

SUBMITTER: Scepanovic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883817 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature