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Stress which can be also defined as modern disease of our age creates considerably negative effects on life comfort and work performance and efficiency. These stress problems affect the individual’s socio-cultural comfort deeply like performance loss, decrease in efficiency, communication problem, physical and mental problems. In this study, an applied research was carried out on 250 employees working in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The enclosed questionnaire was used in the research and participants to questionnaire were demanded to answer the questions directed to demographic and stress factor. This process lasted 4 months approximately. Questionnaire reliability and Cranach’s Alpha 964 value were obtained following the implementation. When we look at the participant distribution, 124 men and 126 women attended the application. Questionnaire data were analyzed with SPSS statistics 17 program. Some technical terms were used statistically in the analysis. Following the study, it was concluded that stress factor decreases both social life and work life quality of employees, and creates negative effect on performance and efficiency.

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