Office workers who suffer from company depression is increasing. According to the survey of employment portal site 'job Korea', 62.9% of workers were suffering from company depression.
Company depression is the symptom that makes workers inactive in company, but not in other places like houses. As there are no symtoms out in the company, it is not treated as a real depression, but it makes serious problems.
According to 917 workers in the company, 87.8% answered that they get too much stress from excessive amount of works, company policies, irresponsible boss, and burden of making creative goods.
This is regarded as a serious issue to the whole company of Korea. Research professor of Yale university said, absence rate of workers who had company depressionwas two times higher than others, and productivity loss was seven times higher.
For these reasons, companies are introducing Employee assistance program called EAP which helps workers get rid of their stress. Experts say, companies should change their view dealing with workers' company depression, for the individuals, and also for the companies. They requested workers to make good habits and sleep well to control body temperature, secrete of hormone and autonomic nerve.
Eun joo, jung. “출근하기 싫어” 직장인 63% ‘회사 우울증". March,2011.http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=shm&sid1=102&oid=028&aid=0002087294(visited: March 30, 2011
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