The cost of workplace stress — and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke

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By some estimates, work-related stress drains the US economy of nearly 300 billion dollars a year — and it can hurt your productivity and personal health too, says wellness advocate Rob Cooke. He shares some strategies to help put your mental, physical and emotional well-being back at the forefront.

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23 Comments on The cost of workplace stress — and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke

  1. Stress and anxiety at work has less to do with the work we do and and more to do with weak management and leadership

  2. Why many TED talkers act like they recite a poem?
    I hate how TED encourages this way of showing off.
    This doesn’t mean that there are not great presenters on TED who understand and know what they are talking about.

  3. I would work for this guy. I was working at a steel mill for 18.5 years 7 days a week swinging shifts. It wrecked my health. They wrote me up for being sick and suspended me one day for 5 call offs on one year. I was working every day and I was constantly sick. They wanted me to write a letter stating how I can improve on my attendance. I went home talked it over with my girlfriend. She said I will type the email but you will have to hit send. That letter she emailed was my resignation. No regrets just uncertainty of finding something. I pictured myself being put in the ground by the time I was 55. I had to quit that job

  4. I worked for a tech startup with the best workplace environment and benefits ever. But in the end, I got laid off because the company had major internal issues among the team members with political, management, and leadership, etc. The entire company had to downsize by 40%. Then I realized that the most important part of a small startup is teamwork.

  5. Stress has rarely something to do with the work itself. Mostly Brandolini’s is a great sum up for problems and stress at work : “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

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