Welcome to my daily "gossip", where I share new, juicy stuff I read in a day in a direct and blunt manner.
3 Mar 2025
I don’t know if you heard, but…
Higher income is associated with greater life satisfaction, and more stress, found a study recently published on Nature.com.
The researchers looked at data from over 2 million adults in the U.S. (from the Gallup Daily Poll, 2008–2017) to see how income relates to both life satisfaction and stress and they found that there was a key turning point at around $63,000 per year.
- Below $63,000 per year: As income went up, stress went down. This is likely because people could cover basic needs more easily.
- Above $63,000 per year: Higher income was actually linked to more stress. The more people earned beyond this amount, the more likely they were to report stress.
- Regardless of income, people who had a stressful day reported feeling less satisfied with life overall.
So, what do we learn from this data?
Perhaps it’s that money can buy happiness, just up to a point though.
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28 Feb 2025
I don’t know if you heard, but…
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found the answer to the burning question: How much disengagement and burnout can affect employers’ bottom line?
And it’s $3,999–$20,683 per employee per year.
More specifically, according to the study:
- Employee disengagement/burnout can cost employers 0.2–2.9 times the average health insurance cost and 3.3–17.1 times employee training costs.
- At an average U.S. 1,000-person company, employee burnout resulted in over $5 million in costs annually.
- Given presenteeism represented up to 89% of these costs, most of these costs may go unrecognized by employers.
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26 Feb 2025
I don’t know if you heard, but…
Fish know how we look. Yes, they see us. 🐠
Turns out wild fish can quickly learn to recognize individual humans. How come?
They use visual cues.
This is found a new study Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
Intriguing, isn’t it?
Check out full study here and the following video for more details:
So, what do we learn from this news?
Maybe it is to not underestimate the capacities of our underwater cousins.🐟
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24 Feb 2025
I don’t know if you heard, but…
Work Institute’s 2025 retention report shows that employee turnover continues to be dominated by preventable reasons, with career-related issues remaining the leading cause, cited by 18% of employees in 2024.
Some other interesting data points include:
- The cost of turnover is estimated at 33% of an employee’s base pay, and will likely rise in 2025 due to wage inflation and labor market constraints.
- Top preventable reasons for leaving include:
- Lack of growth opportunities, inadequate career progression, or insufficient professional development (18.9%).
- Personal health issues, caregiving responsibilities, or family dynamics (12.4%).
- Better manage personal and professional responsibilities, often citing flexible scheduling, remote work options, or workload concerns (11.9%).
- Lack of growth opportunities, inadequate career progression, or insufficient professional development (18.9%).
- 63% of employers state that improving employee turnover is NOT a top priority.
- 9.7% of employee turnover was directly attributed to management issues.
- 40% of overall employee turnover occurs within the first year of employment and underscores the vulnerability of new hires during this period.
- As for the whys, management-related turnover ranked top at 9.6% in 2024, rose from 7.4% in 2022, followed by work-life balance (15.1%) and health and family pressures (14.6%).
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22 Feb 2025
I don’t know if you heard, but…
new Workday’s report just reveals the top 4 human-centric skills deemed least likely to be replaced by AI, and they are:
- Ethical decision-making and moral judgment
- Emotional intelligence and empathy
- Human networking and relationship building
- Conflict resolution.
Thought I’d let you know because I care about you. BUT you’ll get to decide what you wanna do about this yourself.
Cause I can only care this much 🙂
Gossip dismissed.
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