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Health

Your boss not saying 'thank you' could be bad for your health

By Jessica Hamzelou

19 January 2018

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Hair-raising cortisol levels?

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Do you give your all to your job but get little praise in return? A study of workplace stress suggests that throwing yourself into work that you love, but not receiving any rewards for it, is a toxic cocktail for biological stress.

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How to win at work

Make your work work better for you – from dealing with pesky colleagues to taking the perfect break and doing less for more money

, now at Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands, and his colleagues discovered this by analysing people’s cortisol levels. This hormone…

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