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Job Stress and Suicide
We live in an increasingly complex world where work weeks seem to be getting longer, not shorter. More and more, people are taking work home and while they don't actually spend 50-60 hours a week in the office, they work that and more at a combination of office and home work. The need to "work smarter, not harder" has gripped us like never before. As I've said before, I don't entirely agree with this new adage.
A newspaper story in Europe is now bringing attention to job stress and how it may factor in to employee suicide. I haven't seen any figures in the US or American newspapers, but a major European newspaper just carried an article about three employees at an innovative auto design plant who killed themselves.
The latest man to take his life did it while his wife and child were away and the woman said her husband was under increasing pressure to perform more and more tasks. He brought work home, couldn't sleep, got up in the middle of the night to complete tasks and was turning into a different person.
Cutting work forces may help the bottom line, but, in the long run, what is the downside?
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Technorati Tags: stress, suicide, depression, job stress
A newspaper story in Europe is now bringing attention to job stress and how it may factor in to employee suicide. I haven't seen any figures in the US or American newspapers, but a major European newspaper just carried an article about three employees at an innovative auto design plant who killed themselves.
The latest man to take his life did it while his wife and child were away and the woman said her husband was under increasing pressure to perform more and more tasks. He brought work home, couldn't sleep, got up in the middle of the night to complete tasks and was turning into a different person.
Cutting work forces may help the bottom line, but, in the long run, what is the downside?
Related Topics:
Technorati Tags: stress, suicide, depression, job stress
