According to a recent Accountemps survey of chief financial officers, job security ranks a distant second in relation to heavy workloads as the number-one workplace concern for their financial teams. About one in three CFOs (35 percent) ranked heavy workloads as the greatest source of work-related concerns for their finance and accounting professionals; 19 percent said job security was the greatest concern.

“The combination of compliance mandates, traditional projects and shifting priorities has challenged accounting and finance professionals to keep up with their growing workloads,” said Max Messmer, chairman and CEO of Robert Half International.