Your emotional landscape may change a lot in a single workday. As meetings, deadlines, and emails fill your calendar, you may cycle through every feeling from dread to frustration to satisfaction. But research shows that an increasing number of nine-to-fivers are experiencing a stronger, more toxic emotion: anger.
According to a 2022 Gallup poll, 21% of the world’s workers experienced anger on their previous work day. Bearing the weight of this emotion at the office has been linked to hypertension, heart disease, depression, and more. And raging at work harms more than our mental health; it also impedes job performance. Anger may actually impair cognitive processing, zapping worker motivation and productivity.
