(BPT) - Productivity is up. Headcount is stable. On paper, things look fine.
But a new nationwide study suggests that for many organizations, the surface metrics are hiding something more serious. Workers are reporting a slow accumulation of workforce strain that doesn't show up in dashboards until it's expensive to fix.
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