A short interview-style YouTube video (posted Sep 9, 2023) in which Sonya Shelton and another speaker identify two prominent workplace trends: rising burnout and stress (they cite a stat that ~94% of American workers feel stress and 63% are ready to quit due to stress) and increased uncertainty since 2020 (economic volatility, concern about recessions, layoffs, and job security).
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What are, what are some of the trends you're seeing in the workplace today? There's so many. I think that right now I would say the biggest things that I'm seeing are two. One is burnout. I'm seeing a lot more clients and even in the media talking about burnout.
Increasing in.
Burnout, increasing in stress. I think I saw a statistic that 94% of American.
Workers are feeling stress at work and.
63% of the them.
Are ready to quit their job because of stress. Right.
So I think that's a big trend that I'm seeing. And then it's. And kind of related.
Is a lot of uncertainty, right.
Since. Since 2020 with that shutdown and everything, everything has sort.
Of been volatile and people aren't really sure what's happening. People are talking about recession or not.
Recession and what's happening. And, and prices are going up and I don't know how if my business.
Is going to survive or if I'm.
Going to get laid off seeing increasing layoffs. Right. So. So I think there's a lot of.
Uncertainty of the organization, right. From a leadership perspective on what's going to happen with the business, all the.
Way down to your frontline workers wondering, well, if something happens to the business, am I going to have a job?