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01/13/2008: "Job stress will kill you"

Sixty percent of workers said they have high levels of stress with symptoms of extreme fatigue and feeling out of control. Another 33 percent said they have constant but manageable stress.

Fifty-nine percent of workers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com admit to experiencing road rage while traveling to and from work. With 128 million commuters in the United States that's a lot of road rage. It seems your commute is only going to get worse according to "Commuting in America III" by Alan Pisarski published by the Transportation Research Board. The average national travel times grew to 25.5 minutes in 2000, up from 22.4 in 1990 and 21.7 in 1980. That time is increasing even though more people are leaving for work between 5 a.m. and 6:30 a.m to beat rush hour.

[ Our press took a break from articles about How Stress Will Kill You to mention that workplaces cause stress. We could always have a better design for our workplaces... but that's so difficult, we'd have to get up off the sofa or smth. ]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/01/09/five.reasons/index.html