Stress, Memory and Productivity Research
The facts and information in our ads and articles were extracted from the following sources.
Information on the costs of stress:
1. Hoel, H., Sparks, K., & Cooper, C. (2001). The cost of Violence/Stress at work and the benefits of a violence/stress-free working environment. International Labour Organisatio
2. The Commission de la Santé et de la Sécurité du Travail – ‘Workers’ Compensation Board’, Canada
3. https://www.uml.edu/Research/CPH-NEW/Worker/stress-at-work/financial-costs.aspx
4. cost-of-work-related-stress, publication by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA
5. https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-publications/publications/literature_reviews/calculating-the-cost-of-work-related-stress-and-psychosocial-risks
Research on the impact of stress on memory function
6. de Quervain et al., Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory. Nature, 394, 787-790 (1998)
7. Kuhlmann, S.; Piel, M.; Wolf, O.T. (2005). “Impaired Memory Retrieval after Psychosocial Stress in Healthy Young Men”. Journal of Neuroscience. 25 (11): 2977–2982. doi:10.1523 jneurosci.5139-04.2005. PMC 6725125. PMID 15772357
Data on the impact of stress on workers
8, Korn Ferry survey of 2,000 professionals conducted in October 2018. (https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/workplace-stress-motivation)
13. https://www.stress.org/workplace-stress
14. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadians-stress-levels-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic-nanos-survey-1.4927588
15. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976342925/the-pandemic-has-increased-our-stress-levels-and-its-affecting-our-physical-heal
Details on the rate of change
9. https://www.kurzweilai.net/understanding-the-accelerating-rate-of-change
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines
11. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/digital-disruption-has-only-just-begun/
Information on the increasing power of our computers and networks
12. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/
Sources for Evolution data
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_history_of_life
17. https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution
