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More neurotic, less agreeable, less conscientious: how job insecurity shapes your personality

  • Written by Lena Wang, Senior Lecturer in Management, RMIT University
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With unemployment at its highest rate in three decades, almost a million Australians are experiencing the anxiety of being out of work. Even more are underemployed, and more still holding on to jobs for now, not knowing if that will last.

If you feel secure in your job, you are lucky. Because the psychological fallout of job insecurity...

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