Forbes article titled “Is Your Job a Hazard
to Your Health?” written by Jan Bruce
provides reasons to why job stress is slowly
killing employees today. She focuses on
the non-conventional methods of health
impacts when it comes to the workplace,
specifically targeting psychological
repercussions. Bruce uses empirical data to back
her thesis and supporting points. In her
article, she states that the jobs are hazardous
to worker’s health because of workers having
depression and anxiety disorder from
high-strain situations and additions to
workers having cardiovascular disease
with low control and with low social support
experience at heir workplace.
tMany companies only give physical training
and teaching employees
about the health and safety within the
workplace, but employers are not actually helping
the workers to become less stressed and less
pressured about their work. Employers
only train the workers based on how they can
physically do the work properly or using
protective equipment to avoid hazards.In
order for the workers to improve their job satisfaction and
performance they would need to get the
resilience or flexible training which would help them improve
their negative pattern to good ones, which
is usually caused by the stress within the
workplaces. Resilience training will protect
your brain. “Long-established science proves
that resilience—the ability to cope and
thrive in stressful situations—is a measurable set
of skill-based competencies, including
impulse control, empathy, positivity, and realistic
optimism, that can be learned; and everyone
has the ability to increase his or her
resilience.”Based on this article employees
can overcome their stress by
taking the resilience training which
benefits the workers and the company to strive for
better goals in the future. Resilient
workers will have less stress at work and also have
higher job satisfaction. Workplaces can be
tedious and very stressful but just from