#workplace-stress

#workplace-stress

For months, she had been fighting fires and chasing one AI update after another, rewriting roadmaps every week as new tools arrived. That same morning, she had stepped out of a call where the CFO confirmed that a restructuring would almost certainly eliminate many of her team members' roles. Minutes later, one of her direct reports had asked her, "Am I going to have a job in six months?"

A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017. Just under two-thirds (65%) of respondents cited stress to be the biggest cause of illness, up from 50% in 2017. Seven out of 10 said they had worked in excess of their contracted hours at least once a week, with about half (52%) doing so unpaid.

Indeed's survey of 1,551 UK adults aged 18 and over, all in part-time or full-time employment, found that while 87% believe work can be more than a paycheck and 94% believe it is possible to be happy at work most of the time, only 23% report currently thriving at work. In this survey, thriving reflects those with high work wellbeing, which is measured across four key indicators: happiness, stress, sense of purpose, and overall satisfaction.

Work is filled with contradictions and disruptions these days, and the uncertainty can make the workplace feel like a constant emergency. As a result, people are stressed, pessimistic, and pulling back from their organizations-but they're not disconnecting from each other. Our new research shows that, even under tremendous pressure, employees are "quiet connecting": helping each other regardless of what's happening at the company level. Organizations would do well to recognize and strengthen these organic bonds because they can serve as a powerful counterforce.

You know that moment when someone asks you a question in a meeting and your mind goes completely blank? Or when you're sitting in a high-stakes presentation and you feel like you can't move, can't speak, can't think? While it can feel like your mind and body are totally betraying you, what's actually happening is that your nervous system is doing exactly what it's designed to do when it perceives a threat.

A survey of 2,000 workers by Alcohol Change UK found 64 per cent of UK workers reported drinking alcohol for work-related reasons - with job stress, pressure and anxiety behind increased consumption in the past 12 months.

When informal and formal complaints of abuse were made against an army officer, the submission alleges that two of them received telephone texts and threats.

Marwan Al Rahbi states that he was 'screamed' at by the husband of former TD Kate O'Connell, who insisted he acknowledge her as his boss.