Constant pressure from above equates to a constant threat of reprimand, punishment or dismissal. Constant concern over whether you’ll be paid this week, next week, or the week after. Constant worry that you might be replaced by someone less experienced and, therefore, cheaper than you. Constant fear that work will dry up or that your employer won’t keep its order book filled. Constant anxiety about what’s happening back home while you’re working away: Are the kids behaving? Are you missing all their formative years? Is your spouse coping, or lonely? Is the house secure? Is your marriage? Are your colleagues as skilled as they claim to be? Or are they drunk, high, or simply not up to the job?
Every one of these fears and worries chips away at the foundations of a worker’s wellbeing. Separately, they’re difficult. Together, they’re crushing.
And they all boil down to a single word: insecurity.
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