Employees reported chronic work stress, low wages, insufficient opportunities for advancement, and workloads that interfere with family life.
Here are some findings from APA’s Well-Being Survey of 1,501 adults:
- Employees feel stressed (35%)
-Further, 64% feel that their companies do not provide sufficient resources to cope with stress
- Employees feel underpaid (46%)
-Also, 43% feel that their non-monetary recognitions are insufficient and that performance evaluations are unfair and useless (57%)
- Employees feel unheard (47%)
-Not only do they feel that their input falls on deaf ears, but they also feel undervalued (49%)
- Women have it worse than men
-Female employees feel more stressed (37% versus 33%) and underpaid (57% versus 52%)
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