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relying more on regulating bad stress through methods such as meditation and yoga. She points to research
showing that meditation can alter the biochemistry of the brain and actually help people “retrain” the way
their brains and bodies react to stress. “Meditation and yoga enable you to shift the way that your brain
reacts, so if you get proficient at it you’re in control.”
F. Recent research, such as last year’s study of public servants by the British epidemiologist Sir
Michael Marmot, shows the most important predictor of stress is the level of job control a person has. This
debunks the theory that stress is the prerogative of high-achieving executives with type A personalities and
crazy working hours. Instead, Marmot’s and other research reveals they have the best kind of job: one that
combines high demands (challenging work) with high control (autonomy). “The worst jobs are those that
combine high demands and low control. People with demanding jobs but little autonomy have up to four
times the probability of depression and more than double the risk of heart disease,” LaMontagne says.
“Those two alone count for an enormous part of chronic diseases, and they represent a potentially
preventable part.” Overseas, particularly in Europe, such research is leading companies to redesign
organisational practices to increase employees’ autonomy, cutting absenteeism and lifting productivity.
G. The Australian vice-president of AT Kearney, Neil Plumridge says, “Often stress
is caused by our
setting unrealistic expectations of ourselves. I’ll promise a
client I’ll do something tomorrow, and then
[promise] another client the same
thing, when I really know it’s not going to happen. I’ve put stress on
myself
