Healthy working environment is of paramount importance as it affects performance of the employees. Stress which may be defined as state of psychological and / or physiological imbalance which is resulted from the disparity between situational demand and the individual’s ability and/ or motivation to meet those demands. Stress leads to many diseases such as cancer, mental disorder and hypertension. Hence, there is urgent need to manage the stress. To arrive at the causes of stress and devise management strategy in banking sector, a personal survey has been conducted of 100 employees of 25 bank branches in Uttarakhand. This paper shows the information as regards the level of stress which is being faced by the bank employees and the stress management strategies adopted in their bank branches. Our investigation has revealed that the increasing workload has caused stress.

KEYWORDS: Hypertension, Stress, Environment, Satisfaction, Constructive.