24-hour recession news is making employees stressed

Employees’ stress may be increased because they come to work “bathed in 24-hour global news about the economic crisis”, delegates at the CIPD’s Managing Change at Work conference in London heard.

Psychologist Aric Sigman explained that since the last recession, the output of global news organisations has increased rapidly, and some of the messages from the financial crisis have been confusing – such as whether inflation or deflation should be a concern.