The concept of stress is emerging as a topic of utmost importance in an individual's life. Stress serves to have a strong impact on the various aspects of our life, adversely affecting our moods, work performances, relationships and energy levels. Occupational stress is one of the most important perspectives of stress which is affecting the working community on a large scale. A survey on the stress levels on working professionals occupying different designations and the scenarios that poses a load on them has been conducted and the results have been evaluated and tabulated. Since people are acquainted with the negative impacts of increased stress, there is a huge quench for various applications and advanced devices that resort to measure and assess the intensity of stress in real-life on a daily basis. The latest scientific evolution and technological developments help researchers and aids them to build and find new techniques with the help and development of advanced methods and approaches. This paper explores the traditional methodologies adapted to assess stress and also discusses the latest methods of stress assessment that forces to reject the conventional techniques.

Keywords : Stress; Traditional Approaches; Modern Techniques; Questionnaires;