Washington Post Review Finds Foresters & Farmers Report High Happiness, Low Stress

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 -- 8:01 AM

(Bob Hague, WRN) Workers in two of Wisconsin’s signature industries report high levels of happiness and low levels of stress.

Agriculture, logging and forestry have the highest levels of self-reported happiness, and lowest levels of self-reported stress, of any major industry category, according to a Washington Post analysis of thousands of time journals from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey.

A deeper dive revealed that where that work takes place, namely the great outdoors, had a lot to do with higher happiness and lower stress. Logging and farming are also among the most hazardous employment sectors, and those workers also report the highest levels of pain on the job.

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