Productivity/Performance
Monday, December 08, 2008
Reducing the Fear Factor
Workers look for reassurance from their employers as the financial downturn raises economic anxiety to new heights.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
IBM “Commuter Pain” Survey Focuses on Fuel Spending Limit, Frustration and Sleep Deprivation
The first IBM Commuter Pain Survey released today shows a substantial number of drivers in U.S. metropolitan areas are fed up with longer commutes, higher fuel prices and increased pollution and are seeking to reduce the daily toll on their emotional well-being and wallets. 45% report increased stress (above 50% in Dallas, Los Angeles and Miami), and 28% reported increased anger (36% in Los Angeles, the highest).
Anger • Productivity/Performance • Relationships • Sleep • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Suicides linked to work-related stress up in Japan
The number of people who committed suicide or tried to in Japan because of work-related stress has doubled in the last five years, a government report said, illustrating the growing anxiety many here feel from increased workloads and competition.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Spillover Effects Of Family And School Stress Linger In Adolescents’ Daily Lives
Teenagers today face increasing pressures and demands from school and home. New research has found that stress at home affects adolescents’ school life, and vice versa. What’s more, that stress lasts for two days and affects academic performance across the high school years.
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Stress At Work Increases The Progression Of Arteriosclerosis
Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress.
Cardiovascular Health • Depression • Health at Work • Organizational Climate • Productivity/Performance • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Friday, May 02, 2008
Canadian workers punch in even when sick and exhausted
According to a study released today, 42 per cent of Canadian workers went to work sick or exhausted at least once in 2007. Of these, 29 per cent admitted to working while ill three to five times, 11 per cent from six to 10 times and 12 per cent admitted to more than 10 times in the last year. Nine out of 10 workers believe that the incidences of stress-related mental health problems, such as burn-out, depression and anxiety have been increasing over the years.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
U-M study: Work hassles hamper sleep
Common hassles at work are more likely than long hours, night shifts or job insecurity to follow workers home and interfere with their sleep.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
For the Golfer Who Doesn’t Quite Have Everything
Whether it’s a $600 driver or a $200 training aid or a newfangled tee that you can get free at the country-club pro shop, golfers are constantly on the lookout for anything that can help them improve their game, even if ever so slightly. And the good news is that some of this stuff actually works.
This Wall Street Journal article includes a nice writeup of HeartMath and our emWave technology.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
High level of stress rampant in workplace
Poll results released in October by the American Psychological Association found that one-third of Americans are living with extreme stress, and that the most commonly cited source of stress - mentioned by 74 percent of respondents - was work. That was up from 59 percent the previous year.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Short-term stress can affect learning and memory
Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found. It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain’s learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
How to help kids keep test anxiety in check
You can’t dismiss the fear of test-taking, says Dr. Robert Rees, director of education and humanities for HeartMath, a nonprofit institute that has developed a program to help people manage test and other anxiety. “Test anxiety is an almost universal experience,” Rees says. Even students who are well-prepared, he says, sometimes “have so much anxiety that they can’t function cognitively.”
Children • Education • HeartMath • Productivity/Performance • Teenagers • (0) Comments • Permalink
Monday, February 25, 2008
Towers Perrin Study Finds Significant “Engagement Gap” Among Global Workforce
Employees do not believe their organizations or their senior management are doing enough to help them become fully engaged and contribute to their companies’ success, according to a new global workforce study conducted by Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm. Just 21% of the employees surveyed around the world are engaged in their work, meaning they’re willing to go the extra mile to help their companies succeed. Fully 38% are partly to fully disengaged.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Few Employers Addressing Workplace Stress
Workplace stress is the most frequently cited reason U.S. employees consider leaving their jobs. While employers acknowledge that stress is affecting business performance, few are taking steps to address it, according to two surveys by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm. Nearly half of U.S. employers (48 percent) say stress caused by working long hours is affecting business performance. However, only 5 percent are addressing this concern.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Studies Cite Head Injuries As Factor in Some Social Ills
Researchers studying brain injury believe they’ve found a common thread running through many cases of seemingly unrelated social problems: a long-forgotten blow to the head. They’ve found that providing therapy for an underlying brain injury often helps people with a variety of ills ranging from learning disabilities to chronic homelessness and alcoholism. If broadly verified, the findings could have a significant impact in dealing with such intractable difficulties.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Downtime: It’s Enough to Make Some People Sick
Some Research Suggests Illness Goes Up When the Stress of Work Goes Down. Skeptics Are Immune to This Theory.
Burnout • Health at Work • Hormones • Immune System • Productivity/Performance • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink