Welcome to Working on Empty! A note from Peter Schnall, Executive Producer
I am worried about the health of working people. The Working on Empty project is our effort to share with working people and our readers what we have learned about what is happening at work in the United States and how changes at work are impacting the health of working people. Every day we see working conditions getting more demanding, more stressful, and more difficult to cope with. It is frightening. Work is an essential part of life. Most of us cannot survive without it mentally or economically.
Recently, I conducted a workshop on stress with government employees and heard firsthand how their jobs are deteriorating and their work is becoming more difficult. This is unacceptable!!! Our country prides itself on its decent treatment of people everywhere. Yet more and more people are finding it harder to manage financially, emotionally, and health-wise, in large part, due to deteriorating working conditions. We can and must do something about this. But to make changes in a bad situation, we must first know what the problems are. This is what our project is all about -- sharing with you, the reader, all that is known about work and health.
With Working on Empty, we want to engage the American public with what can be done to make work a healthy activity in the U.S. -- in order to and get rid of those feelings of dread and stress when we go to work. Let's make work in the U.S. something we are proud of and happy to be doing. Let’s make healthy work a viable reality for all.
- Peter
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