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Work Takes a Toll: Vast Majority Blame Jobs for Most of Their Stress

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The majority of respondents in a recent study identified the workplace as the primary source of stress in their personal lives. According to the 2024 Workforce State of Mind Report, published by Headspace , “[W]e surveyed more than 2,000 employees, business leaders, and benefits leaders to access the latest trends in workplace mental health.

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Beware of Toxic Productivity: Tips for Working While Under Stress

Eat Your Career

For most of us, “productivity” is something positive, desirable, even healthy —especially when it comes to work. But productivity also has a dark side, which I’ve been experiencing more and more recently. Toxic Productivity is so insidious, it often goes unchecked for long periods. Think of productivity as a spectrum.

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Workplace Stress Is Crushing Young Employees

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Gen-Z appears to be the most stressed cohort of workers; a recent BBC report revealed that a staggering 91% of 18-24-year-olds are stressed (compared to 84% of employees overall). According to the BBC report , researchers have found that the stress endured by this generation is due to a conflation of several unfortunate events.

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Banish Stress Burnout in 3 Easy Steps

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We all know life can be stressful. But is stress actually the enemy? Or is how we respond to it and let stress control us the real problem? Stressful events like giving a big presentation or asking our boss for a promotion aren’t ones that we want to eliminate from our lives. Map it to control your stress.

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Stress, anxiety and a beamish response to it all

Workplace Insight

We now have a policy of not offering ourselves as an outlet for any of the deluge of comment pieces and surveys that are published each year to accompany the various days – and increasingly weeks – dedicated to certain conditions like stress and anxiety. We maintain a particular fascination with stress.

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Overtime Mythbusting: More Hours Don’t Mean More Productivity

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These strategies, however, might be counterproductive, leading to increased stress and decreased efficiency among employees. One critical issue that has been gaining attention lately is work-life balance; the balance between work and personal time.

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Will More Pay Transparency Ease Workplace Stress or Add to it?

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The study found that larger companies (1,001+ employees) experience more stress related to these topics than mid-sized (201-1,000 employees) and small companies (under 200 employees). Furthermore, 76% of respondents from organizations of all sizes believe the pay gap between CEOs and employees is too wide.

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