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Marketing and PR's 'always on' culture is a mental health issue

on Jan 22, 2016 | 0 comments

By Stephen Waddington

Public relations been named as the sixth most stressful job in the world.

This rating was assigned by job site CareerCast after calculating 11 stress factors, including travel, deadlines, working under public scrutiny and with the public, physical demands and risks.

It’s great clickbait, guaranteed to cause excitement and sharing among marketing, media and PR types. But it’s also bullshit.

A friend that works in a UK Accident & Emergency team asked how failing to resuscitate a drowned child, and then asking the parents about tissue donation, compared with my day job.

It was a good point, well made.

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Source: The Drum