Business Insider - From small talk by the coffee machine to presentations over Zoom, the workplace can be a hotbed for anxiety. Pandemic lockdowns, followed by the instability and relentless upheaval of the past several years have heightened these feelings. Remote work, Malcolmson said, "can make everything feel so much more intense." She added: "It's much harder for me to mentally let go of any stresses from the day."
The turmoil of the past few years has made workers of all ages more stressed: In Gallup's 2022 workplace survey, 52% of workers in the US and Canada said they felt stressed at work daily — a record high. In the UK, work-related stress, anxiety, and depression are up 14% from 2020, according to Health and Safety Executive statistics. But Gen Zers, who are just beginning their career journeys, are having an especially difficult time. In a 2022 survey by the meditation app Calm, 58% of Gen Zers said they felt anxious frequently or all the time — a big jump from the one-third of Gen Xers and one-quarter of baby boomers who said the same. A Deloitte survey of 22,000 people from March found a similar result: Nearly half of Gen Zers said they felt anxious and stressed almost all the time, while only 39% of millennials said they felt the same.
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