Without the same benefit of experience overcoming the many trials and tribulations their older counterparts have endured, younger employees are still learning how to make it through tough times.

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: these are unprecedented times, and employees are extraordinarily stressed. We're nearly a year into working and living during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet we're still learning what it takes to take care of our employees and help them manage the resulting challenges as they juggle work and personal lives.

Grokker Innovation Labs' 2021 Working Americans' State of Stress research unearthed two critical insights: while all of today's workers are consumed by stress, those struggling the most are: 1) the youngest employees and 2) those who have found themselves working at home.

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