{"id":2745,"date":"2026-08-10T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/stress-is-contagious-within-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:04:01","slug":"stress-is-contagious-within-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/stress-is-contagious-within-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress is contagious within teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStress is more contagious than a cold.&#8221; Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on why fleeing your job does not solve your problems. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStress spreads like a virus through teams and organizations.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains how your stress not only destroys yourself, but also infects your entire environment. A large-scale study followed 250,000 employees over 12 years and discovered something disturbing: some people who flee unhealthy organizations take their stress with them to their new job and infect their new colleagues there. The effect was even worse among managers.   <\/p>\n<p>But how do you deal with stress more consciously? Have you ever considered a stress budget? And what do terms like VUCA world and BANI world actually mean for our daily stress levels? Elke introduces the term stress activism: dealing more consciously with our own stress. Because one thing is certain: others are indeed infected by your stress.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStress is more contagious than a cold.&#8221; Stress expert Elke &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}