Today, 83 percent of American workers report that far from making them happy, their jobs are causing them stress.1 Two-fifths of us have gone further and actually quit our firms to escape a stressful job.2 And this anxiety isn’t just a nuisance frustration of our occupations; a 2015 analysis of over three hundred different surveys concluded that the health toll of workplace stress was comparable to that of secondhand smoke—stress is shortening our lives.
