Cheyenne MacDonald, writing for the October 17, 2016 UK’s Daily Mail, reported on a 7-year study of 2,300 people by Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business.  They found that employees in high-stress situations who had little freedom to make their own decisions tended to die younger than their less-stressed counterparts.  The study suggested that higher degrees of autonomy and discretion in the workplace could help manage stress and foster a longer and healthier life.  Erik Bonzalez-Mulé, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and lead author of the study suggested that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom of decision making, while stressful job can actually be beneficial to employee health is also paired with freedom in decision making.

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