Stress at the Workplace Blog 4 (Global News)

 Summary:

This news article examines how stress from work could interfere with your relationship at home. Jessica O’Reilly, who is a doctor and hosts the podcast Sex With Dr. Jess, explained that certain occupations such as military supervisors, dancers, flight attendants and choreographers are associated with higher divorce rates. O’Reilly explained that the importance of minimizing workplace stress has increased. Certain aspects of work can lead to the increase in stress and anxiety as well as the impact on the family life is having to answer emails, calls and requests after work hours.

This news article also stated that a retired psychotherapist, Susan Valentine, explained that feeling burnt out from work is not uncommon and that it can seriously affect with your life at home and sex life. She told Global news that our job plays a huge role in our life and that setting boundaries at home can be difficult to implement. Becoming stressed at work leads to reactive feelings which could push our partners away and feel disconnected.

This news article gave recommendations from Valentine to help refrain from allowing stress from work to interfere with your home life. A recommendation she told Global News is to put aside your work phone before bed, if its possible, and to make time for you and your partner/family while trying to prevent factors from work to interfere.

It was also stated that it is also important for employers to help reduce the stress gained from the workplace. Offices that have a better work-life balance can create more productivity as well as the satisfaction of its employees. In doing so, employees will feel much happier with their work and personal life which could result in fewer sick days and less conflict in the workplace as stress retained from work leads to these negative outcomes. Jessica O’Reilly then ended the interview by explaining that arriving first at work and leaving the latest does not mean you will do a good job but will only lead to increase levels of stress.

Relate:

After reading this news article about bringing your stressful feelings home and how it can impact your personal life makes me think about my future career. It is not a surprise that we get stressed from work but allowing it to interfere with your relationship with others is something I would like to avoid in the future. Having an office job, which is the career I most likely will have, can be stressful and requires a lot of time and effort which can lead to stress. Ensuring that issues from work at not brought back home is something I will aim for.

Author: These jobs are linked to high divorce rates — here’s how to keep work out of love by Olivia Bowden 

These jobs are linked to high divorce rates — here’s how to keep work out of love - National | Globalnews.ca

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  1. HARASSMENT IN WORKPLACEDecember 5, 2023 at 6:31 PM

    Great work! Workplace stress is a longstanding issue that has persisted over time and impacting individuals across various industries. Thanks to your blog, I can expand my knowledge about some of the job that have higher rate of divorce and also, it is a great opportunity for me to take lesson when it comes to choose a future workplace that offer work-life balance to avoid burn out and to protect my relationship as well.

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