Workplace stress has been identified as one of the greatest risks to employee health with a large impact on the loss of working days and a negative impact on the quality of job performance. This final paper aims to determine the most common causes of stress of employees of the selected Croatian hotels and to determine the relationship between the workload of workers and the level of work control with the subjective feeling of stress. For the research work, the following hypothesis was set up; „The higher the job requirements (workload) and the smaller the breadth of decision-making (control), the greater the subjective experience of stress.“ A method of a questionnaire was used for dana collection and it was sent in writing to ten selected hotels in costal and continental locations in June 2021. The survey consisted of 15 questions that contained demographic data, an assessment of stress levels and job satisfaction, questions describing job requirements, control and resources, and questions of physiological and psychological symptoms of stress. A total of 108 employees at various positions in the hotels participated in the survey. The results of the research show that employees with higher workload and less control experience stress to a greater extent, have more physiological and psychological signs of stress, and show a greater intention to change jobs compared to employees with smaller workload and greater control.