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The Chronically Unhappy Employee

Lead Change Blog

If you’re in HR or people management, you’ve likely met a chronically discontented worker—the employee who keeps asking for role tweaks, reassignment to a different team, project, or boss, relocation to a sunnier climate, and a desk in a quieter location. The employee’s internal dialogue? “If The means don’t get to the end.

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The Uphill Climb: Why Career Transitions Feel Like Scaling Mount Everest (And How to Do It Anyway).

Rich Gee Group

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett Ah, the career transition! You might be unhappy in your current job, but the fear of moving to a worse situation can be paralyzing. For some, it's a joyous leap into a new professional universe.

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Why You Need to Stop Pushing Yourself So Hard at Work

Lead from Within

Keep yourself and your employees in mind as you read through these early symptoms of stress from overwork. Chronic irritability. Are workloads and expectations creating unhappiness and irritability? Working excessively and compulsively has become the norm, to the degree that Americans are considered workaholics.

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Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible — and Worth It

Harvard Business Review

Being happy at work isn’t just a win for employees; it’s also a win for employers. On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8 50% of the global workforce is quiet quitting and 18 percent are loud quitting – sharing openly that they are unhappy at work. trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP.

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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Michael Lee Stallard

A 2010 AARP survey found that 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely as opposed to 20 percent a decade earlier. Roughly 20 percent of Americans — about 60 million people — are unhappy with their lives because of loneliness. By 2010, nearly 27 percent had just one person.

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50 Forms of Dysfunction in the Workplace

Lead from Within

If not addressed, it can become chronic–and contagious. Happy, fulfilled employees don’t leave unless there’s a great opportunity or a compelling personal reason. Every workplace has some degree of dysfunction, of course. Often the ones that are the healthiest think they’re the worst, and vice versa.

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CNN’s Epic Failure Of Values On Affordable Care Act Coverage

The Idolbuster

They often don’t correlate with the set of the values in the company handbook, and certainly include some subtle and unconscious behaviors by employees. They often don’t correlate with the set of the values in the company handbook, and certainly include some subtle and unconscious behaviors by employees. ” Really?