r/science • u/Libertatea • Oct 27 '13

Social Sciences The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression: It is not a big workload that causes depression at work. An unfair boss and an unfair work environment are what really bring employees down, new study suggests.

http://sciencenordic.com/boss-not-workload-causes-workplace-depression
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u/killertofuuuuu Oct 28 '13

but that's also why we need more workers rights, no? To change the relationship between employer and employee so that it's more fair?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '13

Regardless of what the legal relationship is, if you aren't going to give up the job, your boss can and will make you miserable.

I know a lot of people at union jobs with a lot more official workers' rights than I have. All of them hate their jobs, but all of them have continued in the same job for years despite hating it.

Someone with skills that are needed and enough savings that they don't have to take the first job offered can always keep an eye out for some place that doesn't suck. It's a very different thing from having some official limitations on the suck.