Are you out of control for eight hours a day?
By Barbara Poole
What kind of working world exposes workers to so much stress that a new term was coined to describe it? Who else has suffered down in the trenches of a “high stress, low control job”? Well folks, welcome to the American workplace.
According to an article from NursingCenter.com , “Women experiencing “high stress, low control” situations anywhere in their lives, whether in their family, social life, or work, have a much greater risk of developing disease and having poorer outcomes.” By default, the same is true for their male counterparts.
“High stress, low control” was a term coined to describe blue collar workers’ experiences in repetitive jobs, like production lines and other manufacturing environments. As corporate America moves to more high tech/low touch ways of doing business – from mechanized operations and warehousing environments to delivering sales and service from a call center the size of a football field in a building reminiscent of Fort Knox, it is clear that “high stress, low control” jobs are alive and not so well in many American corporations today.
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