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There is mounting evidence that starting a business reduces stress–and persistent myths that are stopping employees from taking the plunge | Fortune

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:34:19 +0000

In recent years, a new wave of peer-reviewed research indicates that launching a business can dramatically reduce stress and improve physical and mental health. That revelation first gained traction with a groundbreaking paper published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. In it, researchers compared a nationally representative sample of employees and entrepreneurs on various health factors, including blood pressure, physician visits, physical and mental illness, and overall well-being. The results overwhelmingly favored entrepreneurs, who evidenced significantly lower blood pressure and hypertension rates, fewer hospital visits, and reduced incidence of physical and mental illnesses. How can starting a business, which many justifiably consider a massive and nerve-wracking undertaking, possibly reduce stress?

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Silicon Valley’s Contract-Worker Problem -- NYMag

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:55:26 +0000

In other words, the 1099 economy is almost perfectly calibrated to serve the needs of fast-moving start-ups — lower costs, less liability, the ability to grow and shrink the labor pool quickly — but is it good for the people doing the work?

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Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired | The Digital Home - CNET News

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:43:01 +0000

In order to determine which employees would be asked to give stock back, Pincus and his executives tried to pinpoint workers whose contributions to Zynga--in the execs' eyes--didn't necessarily justify the potential cash windfall they could receive when the company went public, the Journal claims. One Journal source said that Zynga executives were especially concerned with not creating a "Google chef" scenario.

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Not An Employee

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:08:44 +0000

"We do not work for you. You do not work for us. We choose to work together."

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Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights - New York Times

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:45:34 +0000

"His client was a middle-aged novice training to become a nun in a Roman Catholic religious order in Toledo. She said she had been dismissed by the order after she became seriously ill — including a diagnosis of breast cancer."

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Workers of the world... relax! | MetaFilter

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:48:29 +0000

"Why work? Why not play instead?"

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CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:43:42 +0000

"We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?"

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