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Stress is a universal phenomenon that essentially manifests itself in humans as a result of pressure emanating from several experiences or challenging situation. Delay in job completion, deterioration of the power of organization and planning, increase in error rate during manipulative and cognitive task, depression and feeling of helplessness and over sensitivity are the major impact of stress on the productivity of professionals. In order to minimize stress, delegating some work, share burden with colleagues, leave and time off work with family and loved ones, as well as reducing work overtime ranked highest as strategies for stress management. Based on the findings, it was concluded that stress has a great impact on the professionals and thereby affects the level of productivity. It was therefore recommended that professionals should exhibit self-control and good self-esteem; engage in continuous professional development on skills for better organization, integration of work within specified project constraints and delegation of assignments, authority and breaking work into manageable parts so as to be able to cope with stress. An attempt has been made through this research paper to know the reasons of stress among the employees and the ways used by employees to cope with the stress generated at workplace. In the second part of the article some stress coping strategies, such as gaining social support, taking advantage of the programs targeting on stress coping, reduction of stress in the workplace by improving work environment and work organization, are explained.