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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Disengagement Can Be Really Depressing Disengaged workplaces predict an increase in employee depression and anxiety, reports Gallup Highlights from the report: атАЬEngaged people feel less stress, and the stress they do feel is offset by a lot more happiness and enjoyment and interest,тАЭ says James K. Harter, Ph.D., GallupтАЩs chief scientist of workplace management and wellbeing and coauthor of 12: The Elements of Great Managing.а The quality of the workplace can be linked to serious physical and mental illnesses such as clinical depression and chronic anxiety that can have a significant negative impact on workersтАЩ job performance and on their personal lives. In a given year, approximately 40 million U.S. adults (18 and older) тАФ about 18% of the U.S. population тАФ are affected by an anxiety disorder. In 2000, for example, the economic burden of depression in the United States was estimated at $83.1 billion, which included $26.1 billion in direct treatment costs and $51.5 billion in indirect workplace costs from absenteeism and тАЬpresenteeism,тАЭ or reduced productivity while at work due to depression. Gallup found that 6.4% of engaged workers had been diagnosed with anxiety, compared with 7.6% of not-engaged workers and 10.4% of actively disengaged workers. Actively disengaged employees were 1.7 times as likely as engaged employees to report being diagnosed with anxiety for the first time in the next year. And actively disengaged employees were almost twice as likely as engaged employees to report being diagnosed with depression for the first time in the next year. аRead the full report at the link (may require log in). 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