Nearly 40 percent of workers admit crying on the job as fear of layoffs lingers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/crying-at-work-job-insecurity-report/

Majority of #US workers say #job insecurity has significant impact on their stress
Highlights from 2025 #WorkInAmerica survey
#JobInsecurity has significant impact on majority of US workers’ (54%) stress levels, according to APA’s 2025 Work in America survey. As workers contend with changes in gov. policy and growing economic uncertainty, the survey revealed several things employers can do to support their employees’ #mentalhealth against intensifying #workplace #stress.
https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/work-in-america/2025/index
Unveiling the unsettling reality: physicians in the wake of COVID

YouTube
"Postdoctoral researchers earn an average of $47,500 a year — a little more than half of the average annual salary for university graduates. Moreover, postdocs face constant upheaval, because they typically have to move to a new role every few years. Some researchers spend a decade or longer jumping from one short-term contract to the next."
#JobInsecurity #ContractWork #CheapLabour #academia #government

With fear in the air and uncertainty abound
Layoffs are common across the whole town
Time and time again it's been seen
That job security eludes the American dream
When workers are left without a voice and without choice
Where compassion and support are absent with no other way to rejoice
The American worker remains resilient and strong
In the face of a crisis and when job losses go long

#layoffs #jobinsecurity #americanworker #resilience #ode #poetry

https://www.vox.com/money/23691406/layoffs-history-job-insecurity-corporate-downsizing-q-a

When did mass layoffs become so normal?

Work in the age of mass layoffs and fear.

Vox
These #Muslim men are disrupting cycles of #homelessness after #prison
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/03/muslim-transitional-housing-texas/
#Jobinsecurity, #housing #discrimination, and #disability affect many people returning home from prison. Add being a #Muslim in the #BibleBelt, and the challenges become even more difficult.
These Muslim men are disrupting cycles of homelessness after prison

Job insecurity, housing discrimination, and disability affect many people returning home from prison. Add being a Muslim in the Bible Belt, and the challenges become even more difficult.

Scalawag
The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/22/the-hamline-controversy-and-the-real-threat-to-academic-freedom
Xclnt analysis, Marxist in its insights (no idea whether author is self-identified as a Marxist). Note it's consistent with trends in US towards greater exploitation, greater austerity, for working people--including in academia. Capitalism makes us all poorer--save for the already very rich.
#Adjuncts #Academic #Poverty #JobInsecurity
The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom

The current debate over academic freedom and equity sparked by the events at Hamline University misses the point.

Al Jazeera