The Stresses of the Way We Work Now

[Mike B 625]

By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi (NYT)

Closed offices and restaurants. Shuttered stores and museums. Darkened schools and theaters.

The current pandemic means that millions of Americans have lost their jobs or are working fewer hours. Those who are fortunate can work from home, or are slowly returning to work.

Vocational psychologists, who study the links between jobs and mental health, say that the current employment crisis and its impact on mental well-being presents some unique challenges. For many workers, mere days separated the warnings about Covid-19 in their area from the shelter-in-place orders that jolted, or ended, their employment......

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/well/mind/coronavirus-work-stress-unemployment-depression-anxiety.html?referringSource=articleShare