With times of economic uncertainty, more folks are stressed that they might lose their jobs (certainly yesterday's newspaper headlines about riots across the globe related to large scale job losses don't help). Increased stress will affect health but folks will call in sick less. That is, with more stress, people come to work but because of the health effects of stress they perform less well. See stress timebomb for the full article but here are some highlights on the situation in Ireland, just substitute Taiwan or your country for Ireland when it appears in the article:
recession bites — but workers will put their health at serious risk by
ignoring it for fear of losing their job. That's the warning from world-renowned stress management expert Professor Cary
Cooper, who believes that work-related stress will be “driven underground as
employees fear for their job security, creating a ticking health time bomb”. The American-born psychologist said any rise in stress levels will
“ironically” lead to a drop in workplace sickness. Prof Cooper spoke of the health issues facing stressed staff when he addressed
employers at a conference in Belfast organised by Carecall, an organisation
which provides employee mental health support. The conference was held in the Ormeau Baths Gallery and was attended by local
business leaders and representatives from local companies. Prof Cooper said workers in Northern Ireland are at risk from long-term and
serious health |issues because of extra pressure from increased working
hours in the UK, financial pressures and an unwillingness to ask for
flexible working time or seek help for stress. He warned that anyone regularly working more than 40 hours per week “will get
sick”. “Ironically, during the time of a recession, absenteeism will decrease but
presentism, that is being at work but not performing at optimum capacity,
will increase and this not only affects the mental health of staff but also
the profitability of the company,” Prof Cooper said. “I would urge managers and human resource managers to take the issue of
work-related stress very seriously and implement professional strategies to
help head off potential problems."
Sucks much but folks get scared in hard times and being scared makes people ill and that means they don't work as well which means they are even more worried about losing their jobs and so on and so on and so on.
There is relief available. One of the most effective methods of dealing with stress? Hypnosis. I have some stress relief CDs on my webpages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com or folks can schedule live appointments or even download a few free MP3s.
All the best,
Brian
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