Sure, a business is, well, a business, but it’s also a social institution. People from all walks of life are required to work together, often under extraordinarily stressful circumstances. There are always management pressures, client pressures, timeline pressures, and nearly every kind of pressure imaginable from a business perspective. When you mix that with the variable personalities, occasionally your business can get thrown off course.

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Major changes are difficult for anyone to adapt to, especially when those changes are job related. When a company, whether large or small, faces restructuring, new management, a buyout, or new ownership, it affects every employee on every level. Job insecurity and emotions run high, and those can have a big impact on production and company morale. (more…)