{"id":190755,"date":"2009-10-28T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/28\/heres-a-shocker-5\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T23:25:00","slug":"heres-a-shocker-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/28\/heres-a-shocker-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who got laid off from Boeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/09_44\/b4153065919516.htm\">have better mental health than those who remained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Would it surprise you to learn that survivors can suffer just as much, if not more, than colleagues who get laid off? It certainly surprised a team of academic researchers who embedded themselves at Boeing (BA) from 1996 to 2006, a tumultuous decade during which the company laid off tens of thousands. The results of the study will appear next year in a Yale University Press book called Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers. &#8220;How much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> better off<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> the laid-off were was stunning and shocking to us,&#8221; says Sarah Moore, a University of Puget Sound industrial psychology professor who is one of the book&#8217;s four authors. &#8220;So much of the literature talks about how dreadful unemployment is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In the greatest surprise of all, the researchers discovered that the people who had been laid off <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">often were happier than those left behind<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">. Many had new jobs, even if they didn&#8217;t always pay as well. Over and over, Moore says, average <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">depression scores were nearly twice as great for those who stayed with Boeing<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> vs. those who left. The laid-off were less likely to binge drink, often slept better, and had fewer chronic health problems. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Boeing is claiming that morale has improved since they got the new company president it, but I kind of doubt that.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this kind of morale is one of the reasons that they are having the problems that they are having with the 787:  When you outsource basic engineering to another firm, people in your firm, don&#8217;t make the extra effort to examine things that look funny to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who got laid off from Boeing have better mental health than those who remained: Would it surprise you to learn that survivors can suffer just as much, if not more, than colleagues who get laid off? It certainly surprised a team of academic researchers who embedded themselves at Boeing (BA) from 1996 to 2006, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1007,975,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aviation","category-employment","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}