According to a report from Aflac, 89% of US workers feel "high levels of stress" at work. As inflation concerns continue and recent data from the April jobs report shows the yearly increase of wages was only 3.9%, the lowest since June 2021, Americans are feeling massive pressure.

Aflac Chief Human Resources Officer Jeri Hawthorne sits down with Brad Smith on Wealth! to give insight into employee burnout and addressing the importance of mental health in the workplace.

Hawthorne explains an interesting finding from the survey: "One of the things that we found was that more than half of the people that we surveyed, from the Aflac Workforces Report, said that they couldn't go one month without a paycheck. So when you look at inflation, when you look at the continuing rise of the price of services and goods, and you have people who can't go one month without a paycheck, that says to me that financial impacts and financial wellness are probably one of the biggest drivers of anxiety and concern for employees."

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This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino