ARCHITECTURE: DREAM JOB OR STRESSFUL JOB?
ARCHITECTURE: DREAM JOB OR STRESSFUL JOB?

Summary/Abstract: Whether you work in an architecture office or manage your own firm, you are likely to be confronted with complex challenges, tight deadlines, massive workloads, and a variety of tasks. Therefore, stress will almost certainly enter the picture. However, the idea of becoming an architect and working in the industry may appear to be at odds with traditional notions of work-life balance. Long commutes, tight deadlines, and the need to make quick judgments, mixed with potentially poor pay and a morass of thorny working relationships and red tape make architecture to be widely regarded as one of the most stressful professions. However, despite the topic’s great importance, not many studies attempted to explore the stress level among the architects, especially in Macedonian context. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the stress level of the architectural professionals and to study whether there is a difference in stress based on the demographic variables, such as gender and age. For this reason, quantitative research on 32 respondents has been conducted, whose results can serve as a reference for designing adequate human resource policies in architectural industry. The research results have indicated that there is a high level of stress among the architects, yet there is not statistically significant difference among the age and gender groups.

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