“Based on how participants rated their own physical and mental health, we found that people who were persistently concerned about losing their jobs reported significantly worse overall health in both studies and were more depressed in one of the studies than those who had actually lost and regained their jobs recently,” said Sarah Burgard, PSC Research Professor. She was cited in a GQ article on mental health and high performance workplaces.

More about Burgard correlates job insecurity higher with negative overall health and depression than the impact of job loss and regain >