There is a lot of talk about the upcoming recession. That and other factors have made a lot of employees afraid that they might soon be laid off. The term for this fear is “layoff anxiety.” I recently had a chance to speak with an HR executive with relevant expertise about research into layoff anxiety.
The research, which was conducted by Career Arc in partnership with The Harris Poll, is called A Study in Modern Pressure: Layoff Anxiety. It polled 1,061 employees across the United States, with a simple mission: understanding to what degree they are worried about losing their jobs and why. The research found that 48% of those surveyed had anxiety about potentially losing their job. That number seems especially high when record-low unemployment rates are taken into consideration.
