May 16, 2017
Washington – Months into the new presidential administration, American workers are feeling more anxious and negative regarding political talk at work than they did prior to the election, according to the latest survey from the American Psychological Association.
The survey gathered responses from 1,311 full- or part-time workers from Feb. 16 to March 8 and was a follow-up to an August polling, also conducted online by Harris Poll, of 927 adults.
The latest results showed 26 percent of workers felt stressed after talking politics, an increase from 17 percent before the election. Forty percent said they experienced at least one negative result such as decreased productivity, lower quality of work, distraction and a more pessimistic opinion of co-workers. That’s up from 27 percent in the August survey. In addition, 21 percent indicated feeling more cynical after a political discussion, an increase from 15 percent pre-election.
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