El estrés laboral es uno de los principales problemas para la salud y la seguridad a los que nos enfrentamos en Europa. El estrés laboral puede afectar a cualquier persona de cualquier nivel. Distintos estudios muestran que entre un 50 % y un 60 % de las bajas laborales están relacionadas con él, y que ya lo sufren el 22 % de los trabajadores de la Unión Europea. El estrés laboral afecta ligera, moderada o severamente a nuestros procesos de...

Ricardo and Blanca are a happily married couple. Ricardo's career, however, is in a rut until a competitor woos him away to a coveted new position. What Ricardo doesn't anticipate are the challenges of a top-level management position. Suddenly, life's demands tax Ricardo and reward him with the ultimate letdown: erectile dysfunction! So begins the next phase of this couple's life together, navigating the ups and downs of both the business world and...

"'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work...

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern...

In Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines, we read gripping first-hand accounts by those thrust into the depths of the crisis. This book is a must-read for health care workers who have been besieged by the ongoing pandemic, for those who love them, and for any reader wanting to gain a deeper understanding of their immense sacrifices and struggles. Heroes are Human also offers invaluable self-care insights...

A series of laboratory and field experiments demonstrated that stress, long thought to be an exclusively psychological phenomenon, is measurable and dangerous on a physical level. Stanford neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied baboons (Papio) on the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya, measuring their levels of stress hormones caused by social hierarchies. Sapolsky found that the hormones adrenaline and glucocorticoid increase in subordinate troop members,...