Fatigue Following Highly Skilled Work

Fatigue at work.

atigue is a common complaint in the working population. Approximately 20% of the working population report symptoms that fall under the concept of fatigue. 1 Other surveys have reported prevalence rates of fatigue varying from 7% to 45%, depending on the instruments used and the applied cut off points. 2 At first sight, the presence of fatigue in a working population does not give much reason f...

Fatigue and shift work.

Shift work is a ubiquitous phenomenon and its adverse effects on workers' physical and mental health have been documented. In the sleep literature, differentiating between the symptoms of fatigue and sleepiness, and developing appropriate objective and subjective measures, have become very important endeavors. From such research, fatigue and sleepiness have been shown to be distinct and indepen...

Work-related fatigue: the specific case of highly educated women in the Netherlands

PURPOSE This study aims to establish the prevalence of high work-related fatigue (need for recovery, NFR) among employees and to explain group differences categorized by gender, age, and education. The study particularly aims to clarify prevalence and explanatory factors in highly educated women. METHODS In 2005 and 2006, large representative samples of 80,000 Dutch employees (net response ra...

Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and concerns about the fiscal burden on public services. We provide direct tests of both models of attitude formation using an original survey experiment embedded in a nationwide U.S. survey. The labor market competition mode...

Designing Work Support Systems - For and With Skilled Users