The table below compares how CEOs and their partners or spouse perceive and rate different sources of stress in the CEO lifestyle.
Overall, CEOs believe that demands of work on private life is the main cause of stress while their partners think that work-related travel is the major source of stress. Both of them agree that interpersonal relations and taking work home cause relatively less stress when compare to other factors.
In the perceptions of CEOs, 68% of stress comes from demands of work on private life and 45% of stress is due to demands of work on relationship with family. However, their partners have rated much lower on both factors, at 23% and 29% respectively. There are three factors which both of them reach a consensus, both interpersonal relations and taking work home are rated around 23% and deadline are rated around 56%.
For the rest of the factors, perceptions of CEOs and their partners on them differ by nearly two folds. Partners believe that work-related travel cause most of the stress, at 87%. Spouse perceives that around 60% of stress is due to interpersonal relations and long working hours but CEOs have rated only around 25% for both the factors.