Always on the Job, Employees Pay With Health -NYT

[Rose Siding]

American workers are stressed out, and in an unforgiving economy, they are becoming more so every day.

Sixty-two percent say their workload has increased over the last six months; 53 percent say work leaves them "overtired and overwhelmed."

Even at home, in the soccer bleachers or at the Labor Day picnic, workers are never really off the clock, bound to BlackBerries, cellphones and laptops. Add iffy job security, rising health care costs, ailing pension plans and the fear that a financial setback could put mortgage payments out of reach, and the office has become, for many, an echo chamber of angst.

It is enough to make workers sick - and it does.

Decades of research have linked stress to everything from heart attacks and stroke to diabetes and a weakened immune system. Now, however, researchers are connecting the dots, finding that the growing stress and uncertainty of the office have a measurable impact on workers' health and, by extension, on companies' bottom lines....MORE!...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/health/05stress.html?hp

[clydefrand]

1. Blackberries??? Please tell me what they are besides

the fruit that I used to pick when I was a kid. I'm out of the loop on blackberries...:-(

BUT I DEFINITELY KNOW STRESS FROM THE WORKPLACE...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[unblock]

3. a wireless e-mail device

the latest versions now combine cell phone with email capabilities.

it has a tiny keyboard so you can actually type a response. it's a pain due to the tiny keyboard, but FAR better then trying to "type" on a normal cell phone (click "2" 3 times to get a "c", etc.)

[clydefrand]

4. Thanks "Unblock" I learn something new every time

I come to this site...which I do several times a day...Am I spending toooooooooooooooooo much time here??? Now, I'll see if Mr. Technology in this household knows blackberries...But why the name blackberries? I always want to know how a name comes to be...just curious...always have been this way.

[foo_bar]

7. Al Gore had one

[Yavin4]

5. It's Another Way For The Man To Screw You Over

A hi-tech ball and chain.

[alfredo]

6. first the telephone, then the pager, now the blackberry.

Technology can serve us or enslave us.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Well, they are finally figuring this out.

About time too.

Consider: People forced, by management policies in action, to work sick, only make others sick, by vectoring the illness. Thus, more people get ill and more man-hours lost.

WTF EVER happened to common sense in action?

[PassingFair]

8. The business model...

does not allow for common sense.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick for workin so hard that they die standin up

:kick: