Workers in 1952 poorer but less stressed
This article explains how: “A report produced by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has compared the workforce in 1952 with the present day. Apparently the workforce has increased by six million since 1952 due to an influx of women, the total number of hours worked has stayed the same, the number of households where nobody earned had increased dramatically from 4% to 18.8% and we’re all more stressed.” There was a time people would have expected those in the “economic slow lane” in rural England to be less affected by stress than their urban counterparts. I suspect with home working and the viral impact of the recession this is no longer the case!