If you are fall into category of stress-prone, you must be very careful in choosing a job! Working in the office with less noticed welfare of employees has an impact far worse for mental health rather than be unemployed.
This is revealed in a study by a team from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. In their survey are revealed that people who are experienced the transition from unemployment into employees with not satisfied wage, claim to stress after work.
Beside unfair and unsatisfactory wages, employee welfare is measured from stress on the job, career paths, flexible work hours, and good communication between superiors and subordinates.
“People who only see black and white, unemployed and employees tend to feel that all jobs are created equal but actually they are wrong,” said Joseph Grzywacz, community and family medicine specialists who conduct this research.
His research is based on a survey of more than 7,000 people in Australia for seven years, beginning in 2001. The respondents were also asked to fill out questionnaires about symptoms of depression or anxiety, as well as positive emotions such as calmness and happiness.
In general, people who have jobs feel happier than unemployment. But when looking deeper, such as age, gender, education level, health status of unemployed person is better than those who work with poor welfare.
People from both groups also showed a decrease of mental health from time to time.
It is expected to be a concern for corporate management because stress, fatigue and anger are a result of dissatisfaction can make a person’s emotions can’t be controlled well.
There are several things that suggested by the research team to improve the welfare of its employees, among others, improve security in works by giving certainty to contract status of employees.
“Companies should be able to make rules flexible so that employees do not feel compelled to choose between work and family, for example, if a child is sick,” said Grzywacz.