American workers are reporting increased unhappiness despite wage increases, more paid time off, and greater control over where they work.
Factors contributing to this include inflation, work-life balance, and remote work.
Some companies have tried to address this by increasing employee benefits, but this has not translated into happier employees.
Other issues include long-distance relationships between bosses and staff, causing some workers to feel isolated. (Trending: Chilling Surveillance Program Under Biden Exposed)
The Wall Street Journal referenced a Gallup workplace report from 2023 that found “the number of U.S. workers who say they are angry, stressed and disengaged is climbing.”
A BambooHR study found “more than 57,000 workers shows job-satisfaction scores have fallen to their lowest point since early 2020, after a 10% drop this year alone.”
“People chafe against being micromanaged back to offices, yet they also find isolating aspects of hybrid and remote work. A cooling job market—especially in white-collar roles—is leaving many professionals feeling stuck,” the report found.
“You try to keep work and home separate, but that sort of stuff is just impacting your mental health so much,” Lindsey Leesmann said after she left a job that required her to be in the office two days a week.
“All that extra spend has not translated into happier employees,” Stephan Scholl, chief executive of Alight Solutions, told The Journal.
“In an Alight survey of 2,000 U.S. employees this year, 34% said they often dread starting their workday—an 11-percentage-point rise since 2020. Corporate clients have told him mental-health claims and costs from employee turnover are rising.”
“Long-distance relationships between bosses and staff might also be an issue,” The Journal wrote, with some workers feeling isolated.
“One Los Angeles-based consultant in his 20s, who asked to remain anonymous because he is seeking another job,” per WSJ, “said that when he started his job at a large company last year, his largely remote colleagues were focused on their own work, unwilling to show a new hire the ropes or invite him for coffee.”
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