#workplace-stress

#workplace-stress

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.

As much as people wish to express their authentic selves, adult life often demands exactly the opposite... Life is full of routines and obligations, but worse, situations in which you have to put on a false front.

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.