Job insecurity can take a heavy toll on your mental and physical health.
There’s strong evidence from meta analyses – research where all the studies in that area are pulled together – that people are significantly more dissatisfied with work when experiencing job insecurity. The same study found job insecurity can also affect workers’ commitment to their organisation and undermine their job performance.
There’s also some evidence job insecurity can increase workplace bullying. When people feel really insecure, they’re more likely to lash out at others. The same study showed workers who’ve been bullied tend to feel more insecure in their work.
Our 2020 study, tracking 1,046 Australians over nearly a decade, suggested a prolonged period of job insecurity could even change people’s personalities: making them less emotionally stable, less agreeable and less conscientious.
The article then goes on to describe ways to help yourself lessen fear of losing your job.
5 Comments
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 40d
Any article that claims to care about helping you feel more secure at your job without mentioning unionization is either doing a bad job or intentionally simping for the billionaire class.
A good union is like a magical panacea for this stuff. I would have to commit a crime on the job to get fired and they would have to close and/or relocate everything before they could lay me off. We're only 400 people with roughly 10% participating in organizating and even that's enough to make it so that the president has a higher chance of losing their job than I do. It doesn't get more secure than that in the workplace.
arbilp3@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 40d
Here's one I've found to begin with: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953620300150
There is a problem I forgot to mention. There are workplaces that are not unionised so any help people can get elsewhere is important. I'll also look into who funds the research council the author works for. Haven't got time now.
EDIT: I found out that the Australian Research Council is a Federal govt body. The https://bcec.edu.au/partners/australian-research-council/
arbilp3@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 40d
Excellent point. Perhaps you could write to the author and ask her if she has done any research on that and if not, why not do an article on the role of unions in helping people psychologically and in other ways in the current work economy.
I'll also see if I can find any info on this aspect of unions.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 40d
My job situation has been pretty steady throughout my unemployment.
arbilp3@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 40d
That's great. We are fortunate in Australia that unemployment levels haven't been critical for a long time. Depending on what work you do it can vary.
With the AI situation many people are facing I wouldn't want to be in their shoes if they are vulnerable to losing their jobs.