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Job insecurity and mental illness.
For some time, I've thought that there is some sort of link between increasing elevels of job insecurity and mental illness. A quick search "job insecurity mental illness" in google gives me many links. From here:
The report found that, over the past 10 years, job insecurity had increased by 28% among professionals, 10% among clerical staff and 9% among managers and it found a direct correlation between job insecurity and [mental] ill health. People who felt secure in their jobs were considerably healthier than those who did not.
Here is an Independent article on the same subject, and here is another report.
In my current job, the "special conditions" on my contract are that "no period of notice is required for termination on either side". So they can literally sack me at any time. This does lead to increased anxiety. I am told that I'm being paranoid when I constantly worry about tiny mistakes that I've made, but then they could just sack me! In order to stay sane I have to almost pretend that that isn't the case. I'm sure that I'd be mentally saner if my jobs recently had been more secure!
For some time, I've thought that there is some sort of link between increasing elevels of job insecurity and mental illness. A quick search "job insecurity mental illness" in google gives me many links. From here:
The report found that, over the past 10 years, job insecurity had increased by 28% among professionals, 10% among clerical staff and 9% among managers and it found a direct correlation between job insecurity and [mental] ill health. People who felt secure in their jobs were considerably healthier than those who did not.
Here is an Independent article on the same subject, and here is another report.
In my current job, the "special conditions" on my contract are that "no period of notice is required for termination on either side". So they can literally sack me at any time. This does lead to increased anxiety. I am told that I'm being paranoid when I constantly worry about tiny mistakes that I've made, but then they could just sack me! In order to stay sane I have to almost pretend that that isn't the case. I'm sure that I'd be mentally saner if my jobs recently had been more secure!