Enthusiastic Reader’s Reviews > Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It > Status Update

p 87 - "Companies that announced layoffs in the previous year paid their CEOs more and gave those CEOs larger percentage raises than companies that did not have at least one downsizing announcement during the previous year."

p 80 - "the benefits from reduced payroll costs go mostly to the companies doing the layoffs while the costs are incurred mostly by the broader society and the individuals affected."

p 71 - "A study in South Korea found that people facing employment instability suffered health effects as large as the effects of smoking."

p 71 - "job insecurity can lead to adverse health effects for both temporary AND permanent employees."

p 68 - "Another source of insecurity and stress even for full-time employees comes from feeling constantly under the gun. People feel that they are always being assessed and evaluated, and if they even temporarily don't perform as well as expected, they will be dismissed. There is less forgiveness in work cultures and not much patience with, or tolerance for, the invariable natural fluctuations in job performance."

p 67 - "Varying, uncertain work schedules and work hours - and wages - wreak havoc on people's lives."

p 51 - "We know that stress affects these individual choices to eat too much, not exercise, take drugs, and abuse alcohol and smoke. We further know that the workplace is an important, if not one of the most important, causes of stress."

p 51 - "Individuals respond to stress, as many examples in this book illustrate, by self-medicating with drugs or alcohol to numb the psychological pain of an unhealthy workplace. People compensate for the psychological depletion of energy from a stressful work environment by overeating."

p 38 - "Differential exposure to harmful workplace environments, largely affected by people's level of education (and to a much, much smaller extent by race and gender), account for somewhere between 10 and 38% of the (growing) inequality in life spans."