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When Silence is Not Golden n Practice
ans, including 1005 employees, • concern about missing work intervention, the employee may
100 employers and 104 physicians being frowned upon (41%); and suffer burnout (major costs).
were interviewed, indicated that • not being able to miss the Even if workers are not expe-
80% of respondents self-report- income (40%). riencing burnout, the effects of
ed experience with presenteeism Numerous studies show as a per- workplace stress have a huge
(spending time at work while not son experiences increasing levels impact on the health and safety
being productively engaged in of workers.
of chronic stress and exhaustion,
work). reasons included: they enter a compounding cycle of White (2015) reported that a
• physical illness (47%); hormonal imbalance that can lead working paper from Harvard and
Stanford Business schools looked
• stress or anxiety (40%); to illness and disease, which in
• workplace issues and/or prob- turn can significantly hamper their at 10 common job stressors and
lems with co-workers or manag- considered how the mental and
ers (22%); and ability to focus and do productive physical effects of these forms of
• depression (15%). work. the risk of errors increases stress related to mortality. the
and quality and customer service
The Desjardins Financial Securi- suffer (and stress-related costs to results were astonishing.
ty National Health Survey (2007) the employer rise). the employee’s “the paper found that problems
reported that 42% percent of work- sense of esteem diminishes, com- stemming from job stress, such
ers go to work sick or exhausted pounding the stress response. the as hypertension, cardiovascular
at least once a year and 12% disease, and decreased mental
risk of work-related and non-work
reported going to work sick or related injury and chronic illness health, can lead to fatal condi-
exhausted more than 10 times per increases (costs increase). Prescrip- tions that wind up killing about
year. reasons included: tion drug use and substance abuse 120,000 people each year, mak-
• looming deadlines (61%), may occur or increase in some ing work-related stressors and
• fear of work piling up (55%), individuals, further compounding the maladies they cause more
• not wanting to overload col- the physiological effects of chron- deadly than diabetes, alzheim-
leagues (49%); ic stress (costs increase). Without er’s or influenza.”
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ans, including 1005 employees, • concern about missing work intervention, the employee may
100 employers and 104 physicians being frowned upon (41%); and suffer burnout (major costs).
were interviewed, indicated that • not being able to miss the Even if workers are not expe-
80% of respondents self-report- income (40%). riencing burnout, the effects of
ed experience with presenteeism Numerous studies show as a per- workplace stress have a huge
(spending time at work while not son experiences increasing levels impact on the health and safety
being productively engaged in of workers.
of chronic stress and exhaustion,
work). reasons included: they enter a compounding cycle of White (2015) reported that a
• physical illness (47%); hormonal imbalance that can lead working paper from Harvard and
Stanford Business schools looked
• stress or anxiety (40%); to illness and disease, which in
• workplace issues and/or prob- turn can significantly hamper their at 10 common job stressors and
lems with co-workers or manag- considered how the mental and
ers (22%); and ability to focus and do productive physical effects of these forms of
• depression (15%). work. the risk of errors increases stress related to mortality. the
and quality and customer service
The Desjardins Financial Securi- suffer (and stress-related costs to results were astonishing.
ty National Health Survey (2007) the employer rise). the employee’s “the paper found that problems
reported that 42% percent of work- sense of esteem diminishes, com- stemming from job stress, such
ers go to work sick or exhausted pounding the stress response. the as hypertension, cardiovascular
at least once a year and 12% disease, and decreased mental
risk of work-related and non-work
reported going to work sick or related injury and chronic illness health, can lead to fatal condi-
exhausted more than 10 times per increases (costs increase). Prescrip- tions that wind up killing about
year. reasons included: tion drug use and substance abuse 120,000 people each year, mak-
• looming deadlines (61%), may occur or increase in some ing work-related stressors and
• fear of work piling up (55%), individuals, further compounding the maladies they cause more
• not wanting to overload col- the physiological effects of chron- deadly than diabetes, alzheim-
leagues (49%); ic stress (costs increase). Without er’s or influenza.”
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