The cost of workplace stress -- and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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By some estimates, work-related stress drains the US economy of nearly 300 billion dollars a year -- and it can hurt your productivity and personal health too, says wellness advocate Rob Cooke. He shares some strategies to help put your mental, physical and emotional well-being back at the forefront.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Elise Hu, with your daily TED Talk.
0:07.4	Workplace stress.
0:09.2	You know it.
0:10.3	I know it.
0:11.3	We live it.
0:12.6	And it's costing us as individuals and as a society.
0:16.0	In this talk from TED at Wells Fargo, 2020, You're about to hear strategies not just to individually feel
0:22.6	better and live better as colleagues. This is about how workplaces and organizations can put our
0:28.6	mental health and overall well-being first. Halfway through this talk, Rob Cook shared a nugget
0:34.2	about the self-care industry that leads him to say and me to think,
0:39.0	so what's up?
0:40.2	Well, he's going to give us what's up.
0:42.4	Enjoy.
0:45.5	Stress.
0:46.1	We all know what it is and we all handle it differently.
0:48.8	Whether it's our thoughts speeding up or slowing down, eating our emotions or not at all,
0:53.4	difficulty sleeping or just getting out of bed.
0:56.3	Frankly, it sucks. But there's good stress too, you know, like preparing for the biggest
1:02.5	public speaking event you've ever given.
1:12.3	On a global platform.
1:17.4	No, even the good stress can mess with you, but it's the bad stress that I came to talk about,
1:19.2	and probably not for the reason you'd expect.
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