Data from a workplace barometer study show more than a quarter of employees felt depressed often, a half said depression affected their lives and for 8% life was “very or extremely difficult”.
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Over half of Australian teachers suffer from anxiety and nearly one-fifth are depressed.
Has anyone close to you asked you to cut down on your work? Do you feel guilty that you’re not spending enough time with your friends, family or even yourself? It might be time for change.
It matters whether you feel like your boss cares about you.
Pledging to destigmatise mental health in the workplace is admirable, but it comes with problems too.
Research suggests that 70% of people will experience an illogical sense of being a phoney at work at some point in their careers.
Abusive bosses might be to blame for the growing epidemic of mental ill health among UK workers.
Today it’s estimated that we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day as our 15th century ancestors would have in their lifetime.
Burnout is hard to diagnose, as it is not featured in the manual of mental disorders.
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
A happier, healthier work life is easy to achieve.
Basically, we need to work less.
Celebrating mental health is a great opportunity to make the right changes to keep workers happy – and productive.
It’s a demanding job, but all indicators suggest that the Queen is still up to it.
Nature is dispersed through our cities, even if we don’t notice it. And there’s abundant evidence that engaging with nature, even in urban settings, is good for us.
Humour doesn’t just help people deal with tension in the workplace, it can also help them work through complex problems.
Being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math means women can be made to feel they don’t belong, with long-term mental health consequences.
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Technology can work for us, or against us. Sometimes both at the same time.
It turns out that people who’ve experienced rude behavior from others are “infected” with rudeness and will be rude to the people they interact with next.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Loughborough University
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in wellbeing at work, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor for Responsible Business, Middlesex University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, BMRI & Disciplne of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
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Post-doctoral Researcher, Griffith University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, Public Health, University of Sydney
