“Research Shows A Bad Job Can Be Worse For Mental Health Than No Job”
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1 min readDec 19, 2016
“There have been a myriad of research studies on the stress and trauma caused by unemployment, showing that it can be just as bad as a divorce or the death of a spouse. Some researchers have taken a closer look and have found that as bad as unemployment can be, workers who are emotionally disconnected from their work and workplace rate their lives more poorly than those who are unemployed…
Researchers suggest that employment policies that are based on the notion that any job is better than none in terms of economic and personal well being may be wrong.”
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