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The research identifies work-life balance as the leading source of stress among Canadian employees, driven largely by the \u201calways-on\u201d economy, external economic pressures, and blurred boundaries between work and personal life in an increasingly digital workplace. Read the full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com\/benefits\/wellbeing\/work-life-balance-stress-is-driving-pension-and-benefits-risk-study-finds\/393460\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17834,"template":"","categories":[178,566,223],"tags":[610],"tipes":[33],"region":[],"class_list":["post-17833","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burnout","category-psychological-safety","category-work-life","tag-psychological-safety-study","tipes-wpo-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work-life balance stress is driving pension and benefits risk, study finds - Workplace Options - Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oliver Brecht explores down why work-life balance is the top workplace stressor, drawing on new findings from a global psychological safety study in a recent interview.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.workplaceoptions.com\/ca\/news\/work-life-balance-stress-is-driving-pension-and-benefits-risk-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work-life balance stress is driving pension and benefits risk, study finds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oliver Brecht explores down why work-life balance is the top workplace stressor, drawing on new findings from a global psychological safety study in a recent interview.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.workplaceoptions.com\/ca\/news\/work-life-balance-stress-is-driving-pension-and-benefits-risk-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Workplace Options - 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