{"id":240462,"date":"2026-07-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:55:11","slug":"mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-year reality check on work: Anxiety is up, trust is down, AI is everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/careers\/article-mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is\/\">Mid-year reality check on work: Anxiety is up, trust is down, AI is everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/careers\/article-mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/careers\/article-mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-05 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theglobeandmail.com\">www.theglobeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elevated Workplace Anxiety:<\/strong> Workplace anxiety remains high, characterized by ongoing &#8220;forever layoffs&#8221; rather than mass layoffs, resulting in persistent job insecurity and rising mentions of layoffs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deteriorating Trust between Employees and Leadership:<\/strong> Trust between employees and leadership has deteriorated, exacerbated by economic uncertainty, restructuring, and poor workplace decisions, leading to lower leadership ratings and more negative descriptors used in reviews.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shifts in Return-to-Office Policies:<\/strong> Return-to-office policies continue to evolve, with hybrid work growing and remote employees experiencing the weakest workplace experience and work-life balance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increased Concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI):<\/strong> Discussions about AI have surged in employee reviews, reflecting growing concerns about AI&#8217;s impact on jobs, workloads, and long-term career prospects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job Market Challenges for Job Seekers:<\/strong> The job market has become more challenging for job seekers; they are declining fewer offers, indicating a preference for stability over the ideal fit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Struggles for New Graduates:<\/strong> Despite wage growth, new graduates face an increasingly competitive job market and challenges in landing their first job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These points encapsulate major findings from Glassdoor&#8217;s mid-year review of workplace trends based on U.S. data but also reflective of trends elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-year reality check on work: Anxiety is up, trust is down, AI is everywhere https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/careers\/article-mid-year-reality-check-on-work-anxiety-is-up-trust-is-down-ai-is\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/UAAUBRDJRRDEBKA7HOXOKBIL2E.jpg?auth=3f6cb3905ea12d3a641659ec05f1f2d9fc4b7033aadd0e01466d753e70096536&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240464,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240462\/revisions\/240464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}