Many are the factors that contribute to the wide spreading of fear in the workplace. Technological changes and constant transformations on the management systems have been raising the pressure for excellence and productivity, intensifying the professional experience (CUNHA, 2006). Such scenario, in most of cases is acknowledged by researchers as something evil, capable of jeopardizing psychological and even physical integrity of those who experience it, negatively effecting organizational development (SUAREZ, 1993, APPLEBAUM, 1998). However, there are those who see in fear something positive. Such feeling, sometimes, when well managed is defined as a cornerstone for social interaction (KOURY, 2002) or even as a performance improver, helping managers and employees in a company. The main goal of this dissertation is to explore how demographic variables – such as age, gender, professional status, professional contract type and hierarchal level – effect on the intensity of the fear of failure in the workplace. In order to accomplish that, the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory – PFAI (CONROY, 2002) was applied to an intentional, nonprobabilistic sample, chosen by accessibility of Business Administration graduate students from a university from Rio de Janeiro. Based on data statistical treatment, it could be observed false low scores, that highlight some limitations related to the expression of feelings, specially the negative ones, like fear. Besides the low scores measured for fear of failure, the descriptive statistics refused the hypothesis established between fear of failure and the professional contract type variable and indicate the need for fitting of the fear of failure construct (CONROY, 2002) to the Brazilian workplace.