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50% of millennials have left a job for mental-health reasons, a new study found |

Published in Indonesia - Social interactions and entertainment - 0 - 08 Oct 19 16:41

About half of millennials and 75% of Gen Zers have left a job because of mental health reasons, a study conducted by Mind Share Partners, SAP, and Qualtrics and published in the Harvard Business Review found. The study, which looked at mental-health challenges and stigmas in the US workplace, polled 1,500 respondents ages 16 and older working full time.That was significantly higher than the overall percentage of respondents who said they had left a job for mental-health reasons, 20%. This indicates a generational shift in awareness, said the authors of the report, Kelly Greenwood, Vivek Bapat, and Mike Maughan.That shift is no surprise, considering that millennials have also become known as the therapy generation. Theyre cognizant about their mental health and helping to destigmatize therapy, Peggy Drexler wrote in a March essay for The Wall Street Journal.Millennials, she said, see therapy as a form of self-improvement — and they also suffer from a desire to be perfect, leading them to seek help when they feel they havent met their expectations.But their inclination toward therapy also highlights some of the biggest problems plaguing the generation.

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