Job dissatisifaction can make you sick

Employers, if you're looking for yet another bottom-line reason to pay attention to passion, take note. A new analysis of hundreds of job satisfaction studies shows a clear  connection between job satisfaction and health, especially mental health.

Researchers from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) undertook a systematic review of 485 studies covering 267,995 individuals, evaluating the research evidence linking job satisfaction to physical and mental wellbeing. The authors say that the combined findings 'provided, for the first time, a clear indication of the immensely strong relationship between job satisfaction and both mental and physical health.' They add: 'The relationships are particularly impressive for aspects of mental health, specifically burnout, lowered self-esteem, anxiety, and depression, where it can now be confirmed that dissatisfaction at work can be hazardous to an employee's mental health and wellbeing.'

All of which adds up to a bottom-line impact through absenteeism, lower productivity, and health care costs.

Curt Rosengren

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Comments

[David McQueen]

It would be interesting to see how many managers see this is an essential part of career development of their staff.

Surely if you are a happy it makes for a more productive environment and reduction in conflict.

Keep up the good work Curt

[Hiren shah]

Curt is absolutely right. A majority of time has to be spent on the workplace as most of the waking hours go there. If one is grossly dissatisfied it is bound to lead to serious trouble.

The great mystic, Osho said that people came to him to learn meditation to be happy. He said that they were under a wrong impression. He said that when people are in the occupation of their liking , they are automatically mediatve and hense happy. "He said that when you are meditative, you are happy and not the other way around"
I have myself done yoga and meditation for a number of years but to no avail because one hour of yoga/meditation followed by 10 hours of misery in a gross imbalance. In exteme cases, Yoga cannot help.