Workers today are happy to have jobs but unhappy in them. “A lot of people like their job because they like having a job,” said Carl Van Horn of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Recently, the Heldrich Center released a report called “The Anxious American Worker.”

The survey revealed that layoffs at a company, even in small numbers, generated fear among workers. With the addition of hiring freezes and disappearing colleagues, this leaves workers with more work to process, less time to do it, and usually with little to no pay increase.

“All of those things lead to dissatisfaction, not only with work, but with life,” said James O’Toole, author of “The New American Workplace” and a business professor at the University of Denver.

The US economy has shed more than 400,000 jobs since January 2008, and the median family income has not risen in the past seven years according to “The State of Working America 2008-09,” an analysis released by the Economic Policy Institute.

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