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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Disengagement Can Be Really Depressing Disengaged workplaces predict an increase in employee depression and anxiety, reports Gallup Highlights from the report: “Engaged people feel less stress, and the stress they do feel is offset by a lot more happiness and enjoyment and interest,” says James K. Harter, Ph.D., Gallup’s chief scientist of workplace management and wellbeing and coauthor of 12: The Elements of Great Managing. The quality of the workplace can be linked to serious physical and mental illnesses such as clinical depression and chronic anxiety that can have a significant negative impact on workers’ job performance and on their personal lives. In a given year, approximately 40 million U.S. adults (18 and older) — about 18% of the U.S. population — are affected by an anxiety disorder. In 2000, for example, the economic burden of depression in the United States was estimated at $83.1 billion, which included $26.1 billion in direct treatment costs and $51.5 billion in indirect workplace costs from absenteeism and “presenteeism,” or reduced productivity while at work due to depression. Gallup found that 6.4% of engaged workers had been diagnosed with anxiety, compared with 7.6% of not-engaged workers and 10.4% of actively disengaged workers. Actively disengaged employees were 1.7 times as likely as engaged employees to report being diagnosed with anxiety for the first time in the next year. And actively disengaged employees were almost twice as likely as engaged employees to report being diagnosed with depression for the first time in the next year. Read the full report at the link (may require log in). Source (please note, some articles are only available for a limited time.) Posted by: gisela on 2010-04-03 21:04:38 Subscribe to the feed Direct Link to this post Next post: Dopamine impacts your willingness to work 2012-05-12 10:04:13 Other posts tagged employee engagement, depression, mental health: · [Dopamine impacts your willingness to work] · [Comparing suffering may stop people seeking help for depression and anxiety] · [The psychological risks of health staff working at the ICU and strategies to prevent them] · [Adults experiencing mental illness have higher rates of certain chronic physical illnesses] · [Fear of losing job causes dissatisfaction and lack of commitment] · [Presenteeism: the broader issues and factors] · [Bias in decision-making leads to poor choices and possibly depression] · [Daylight savings and your internal clocks] · [Burning calories at the gym avoids burnout at work] · [Phone counseling program helps workers with depression] · [Working 9/11 - the health effects 10 years later] Don't forget: there is a search box on every page! Recent Posts: Dopamine impacts your willingness to work People who are willing to work hard for rewards had higher release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in areas of the brain known to play an important role in reward and motivation Posted by: danica on 2012-05-12 10:04:13 Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships How internships are high-impact educational practices that can lead to higher levels of learning than those practices found in traditional classroom settings Posted by: danica on 2012-05-11 10:59:49 Comparing suffering may stop people seeking help for depression and anxiety People make inaccurate judgements about their depression and anxiety symptoms based on their perception of the suffering of those around them Posted by: danica on 2012-05-09 11:17:17 Long commutes may be hazardous to health Greater commuting distances are associated with decreased cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), increased weight, and other indicators of metabolic risk Posted by: danica on 2012-05-09 09:02:31 National U.K. handwashing campaign improved hygiene and reduced infection The more UK hospitals purchased soap and alcohol handrub, the more levels of MRSA and C. difficile went down Posted by: danica on 2012-05-07 09:05:37 View Your Cart? Call us for more information: In Toronto and Area call 647.723.6381 or call 1.866.395.8904 Toll-free. Dial answer group (ext) 3. \| Share: \| more Check out our Amazon Reading List!	New! Wellergize brings the power of Permacharts to your organization. Click here to see our selection. Wellergize Latest Tweet: Hmm. Twitter appears to be pining for the fjords at the moment. Who has used Wellergize Products and Services? Chevron, for one. Ask us how we can help your organization.
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