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...When we first started hearing about the position, they said ‘you’ll be really surprised by some of the issues that college kids confront today, things like eating disorders, academic stress...’ and Jay turned to me and said, ‘maybe I’ll be surprised, but she won’t,’” she says...
...When the small computer-services company he worked for in Raleigh, N.C., went out of business in the summer of 2001, Kimball, now 58, was unconcerned. "I had never had a problem finding work," he recalls. But times had changed. He struggled to land a decent job, and the stress contributed to a heart condition that required surgery. Finally, a mortgage firm that had turned down Kimball for a loan-officer opening asked him to manage its website. He jumped at the offer. His new annual salary...
...based in Portland, Ore., gives new hires $100 to decorate their cubicles, "just to make it feel homey," says an administrator, "since we're here so much." In today's labor market, in which simply getting a paycheck can qualify as a morale booster, some firms are providing inexpensive stress reducers that have the added benefit of squeezing more work out of their staff...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was half right when he warned that we have to fear fear itself. As Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University and others have found, stress is bad for human health. Chronic stress suppresses the immune system. Worry too much about getting sick, and you’re more likely to get sick, or sicker, from any infectious disease. Stress also impairs memory and learning, increases the risk of Type II diabetes, and accelerates osteoporosis...
...classifications at transplant factories are broader. Line workers are trained in a variety of tasks--say, spot welding as well as interior assembly--and they rotate jobs frequently. They're less susceptible to boredom and repetitive-stress injuries. They're also trained to do preventive maintenance. At Toyota plants, every assembly-line worker has the authority to stop the line if he or she spots, say, a flaw in a windshield. More important, workers are encouraged by management...