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Stress refers to the physical, mental and emotional wear and tear, and it is emerging as a leading health risk of the 21st century and as a serious hazard in the workplace. Employee stress can take many forms and significantly impact on both individuals and organizations. It can manifest as anxiety, aggression, irritability, dependency, withdrawal or depression. This study aims to investigate workplace stress among employees and its related causes and consequences in insurance sector in Aligarh. A sample of 100 respondents from different insurance organizations in the public and private sectors of in Aligarh participated in this study. The results shows that significant relationships between role ambiguity and age and between role conflict and age and marital status. The Occupational Stress Index (OSI) developed by Srivastava and Singh (1983) were used to assess the level of job stress of the sample. The findings of the study reveals higher levels of job stress among employees of (20-30) years age than their counterparts in the middle age (31-40 years) and the old age groups (41-50 years). The study also found that the age found to be negatively correlated with occupational stress. The aim of this paper is to provide information for employees on stress and to provide and identify a common approach that will be adopted by the employees as well as the managers to cope with stress at the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]