Well, most articles that focus on how Americans feel about their workplace are not specifically about "hostile" or "threatening" work environments, but pretty much all of them find that the majority of Americans are unhappy with their jobs. I wish the article had done more than mentioned "sexual harassment and verbal bullying," because saying a lot of us face hostile/threatening work environments and leaving it at basically that really isn't saying much. And the survey is too long to dive into to figure out what that really means.

Now, have I worked in environments where I got bullied? Yes. I just feel like the most common problems with our workplaces are 1) we don't like our boss--we either tend to feel like they're unreasonable/unrealistic about the work they give us and expect us to complete in the time frame they expect it, or we feel like they're idiots who don't deserve to be the boss, or both...or they treat different workers differently, and it's not necessarily based on who does the best work; 2) we don't like some of our co-workers; 3) we don't like our job duties; 4) we don't like the hours we work. That's pretty much why the majority of us don't like our jobs/workplaces, and it's either some of those issues or all of them, for most of us who don't like our jobs.

I currently like my job; I just simply am not a fan of working--particularly, as the article mentions, being tied to certain days and certain hours every single Monday-Friday vs having more flexibility or the ability to work from home.

The "systemic" issue--some of those things, such as diversity, are a result of larger societal issues we have in this country. You can't resolve the diversity issue, really, without fixing that overall issue in our society, which is never going to happen. And the workplace in the US really has gotten worse over the last 15 years, particularly as it relates to the 4 reasons I mentioned above that are generally why we are unhappy at work--so it's not totally systemic. A lot of it is just about the people who are put in charge at workplaces and the CEOs and the way they think, and you can change that. As it stands, they seem to think that everyone needs a job so bad that they can be as unrealistic/unreasonable as they want, they don't want to train anyone anymore, they want to pay you less to do more, they've started placing too much emphasis on the "like who you work with" line of thinking in hiring and work environments, i.e. social aspects, vs focusing on who is actually qualified, who is educated and who actually is a good employee, etc. These things have made American workplaces so much worse than they used to be, and they have also made it so much harder to even just get a job...which results in more people working jobs they don't want to work just to make a living, i.e. more people who hate their jobs.

I don't generally agree with this. And the reason why is...one of the things that has changed for the worse in the last 15 years in American workplaces is the benefits employers offer. More and more employers offer fewer and fewer benefits, and many offer none. I have worked for many employers who don't offer health insurance at all, to the point where I don't expect it or any other benefits when I go out for a new job. My current employer does not offer health insurance. Employers will do anything to get around offering it, from calling you a "contractor" to making sure you don't work full time to making sure they have very few employees. And I would never stay with a job just for health insurance.

My main problem with entrepreneurship, if you want to start a business, is more so how much it can cost and all the tax stuff you have to make sure you get right if you don't want to end up in trouble with the government. And if people are not starting businesses as much as they used to...well, Americans have more expenses now than they used to. Everything costs more, more of us are in debt than ever before (a lot of that is thanks to college costs), a lot of Americans have started having kids without being married and without having enough resources to care for kids, and we're just not making more money than we used to (you have some outliers--obviously, software engineers and such--but you have a lot of "underemployed" people here whose hourly wages and salaries just don't work for the expenses and/or debts they have).

This author is paying too much for health insurance, unless she has kids who are on her coverage, so don't get the wrong idea from this. My health insurance, as a single, not-that-healthy poor person in her 30s, is about $112/month. She needs to get on Obamacare and keep it moving.