ABSTRACT
It seems that every day there are stories in the media about the ever-increasing prevalence of stress in the workplace and its cost to employers and the economy, as well as the harmful physical and psychological effects on those individuals experiencing it. Stress is one of the major reasons employees cite for their absence from work, and stress-related absence is increasing. A CBT-based view of stress would focus on how people assess both the challenges they are facing and their ability to cope with them. Procrastination can be described as putting off until later what people's better judgement tells them ought to be done now, thereby incurring unwanted consequences through such dilatory behavior. Attending an interview can be a sleep-depriving, stomach-shrinking, nerve-shredding experience if one see themselves drying up, talking gibberish, asking idiotic questions, freezing, running out of the room, shaking uncontrollably and a host of other imagined 'horrors', in other words, making a complete fool of themselves.
