Health at Work
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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Wednesday, December 26, 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.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Hospital that Truly Cares
When so much of the news we hear about the US health care system is what’s breaking or broken, it’s inspiring to hear the story of a hospital that is transforming stress and transforming lives. Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva, Illinois recently received two awards from HeartMath®, an innovative research, technology and training organization which is helping hospitals across the US create healthy environments for both staff and patients.
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Workers’ Mental Health and Stress Affecting Business Results in Canada
The 2007 Staying@Work Canada report found that mental health issues are the leading cause of both long- and short-term disability claims (72 percent and 82 percent respectively). Despite the prevalence of these claims, only 15 percent of responding companies conduct mental health risk assessments and less than 20 percent say that addressing the stigma associated with mental illness is a priority.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Email stress - the new office workers’ plague
Workers are suffering from the growing problem of ‘email stress’ as they struggle to cope with an unending tide of messages, new research reveals. Employees are becoming tired, frustrated and unproductive after constantly monitoring the electronic messages that keep interrupting them as they try to concentrate at work.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Stress Disconnect: 60 Percent of Employees Report High Levels of Stress; Managers Beg to Differ
The majority of employees report having high levels of stress, while less than half of managers think their workers are highly stressed, according to ComPsych’s StressPulse SM survey.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Companies are tuning in to stress
Mike Giovanni works in a stressful environment. As a transport engineering manager for Verizon Wireless in Denver, he’s a technician tasked with maintaining and expanding the company’s cellphone network in the Rocky Mountain region. But when the stress becomes too much to bear, he uses relaxation techniques he perfected with a computer program.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
New Study Shows Naps May Reduce Coronary Mortality
Is taking naps good for your heart? New research from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Athens Medical School (UAMS) in Greece suggests that the answer may be yes. In a new large, prospective study, researchers found that midday napping (siestas) reduced coronary mortality by about one third among men and women.
Rotten to the core: How workplace ‘bad apples’ spoil barrels of good employees
Look around any organization and chances are you’ll be able to find at least one person whose negative behavior affects the rest of the group to varying degrees. So much so, say two University of Washington researchers, that these “bad apples” are like a virus to their teams, and can upset or spoil the whole apple cart.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Redundancies boost mental health problems for those who keep their jobs
Enforced redundancies, also known as “downsizing,” boost mental health problems among those who keep their jobs, reveals research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers base their findings on prescriptions among more than 26,500 municipal workers in Finland, after a period of redundancies, sparked by a national recession. Men who lost or left their jobs were most at risk of a prescription for a psychotropic drug. They were 64% more likely to be given such a prescription than those working in organisations where no job losses had occurred. But men who kept their jobs in downsized organisations were almost 50% more likely to be given a prescription for one of these drugs than were those whose organisations were not downsized.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Depression impacts 500,000 Canadian workers, study shows
About half a million Canadian workers experience depression and most of them say the symptoms interfere with their ability to work, according to a study released by Statistics Canada today. Data from 2002 indicate that almost four per cent of workers age 25 to 64 had experienced depression in the 12 months before the Canadian community health survey was conducted.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Fatigue in the Workplace Is Common and Costly
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. workers experience fatigue, a problem that carries billions of dollars in costs from lost productivity, according to a study in the January Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers analyzed data from a nationwide study of the relationship between health and productivity at work. Of the nearly 29,000 employed adults interviewed, 38 percent said they had experienced “low levels of energy, poor sleep, or a feeling of fatigue” during the past two weeks. With adjustment for other factors, fatigue was more common in women than men, in workers less than 50 years old, and in white workers compared with African-Americans. Workers with “high-control” jobs—relatively well-paid jobs with decision-making responsibility—also reported higher rates of fatigue.
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Coworker Conflict Drives Up Employee Stress Levels
More than half of the U.S. workforce reports having high stress levels, according to ComPsych’s StressPulse survey and, for the first time, “people issues” have replaced workload as the number one cause of stress.
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