{"id":3268,"date":"2026-07-12T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:42:15","slug":"brene-brown-warns-american-workers-are-not-neurologically-wired-for-this-level-of-rapid-change-and-instability-people-are-not-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3268","title":{"rendered":"Bren\u00e9 Brown warns American workers are not neurologically wired for this level of rapid change and instability: \u2018People are not okay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This constant change has thrown many lives out of balance\u2014and author, researcher, and professor Bren\u00e9 Brown told <em>Fortune<\/em> instability wreaks havoc on workers\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3266\">The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re leading people, you probably know people are not okay,\u201d Brown said onstage during <em>Fortune<\/em>\u2018s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., in October 2025.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFolks are still going into Costco with an automatic weapon because they\u2019re out of Cheese Whiz,\u201d she stressed. \u201cPeople are emotionally dysregulated, distrustful, and disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Gen Z and young millennials are missing a day of work every week owing to mental health concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Employees are under intense emotional and financial strain; the typical worker in the U.K. feels unable to work for almost 50 days a year, owing to their mental health struggles. And staffers are even willing to make big sacrifices to feel like they\u2019re in a good place\u2014half of American Gen Zers and millennials said they would take a pay cut if their boss helped to better their well-being at work.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said unstable geopolitics, changing markets, and advanced tech like AI are to blame for Americans\u2019 declining well-being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The majority of U.S. staffers said tension has risen at work since the new administration took power. Meanwhile, markets have been shaken by trade policies and tariffs, leaving investors and everyday consumers on unsteady ground; and AI automating jobs only adds another layer of anxiety.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The current state of the world paints a bleak picture for workforces that are \u201cincreasingly struggling,\u201d according to Brown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is extraordinarily difficult to be brave right now for a lot of different reasons. Politics is one, but [also] radically changing markets \u2026 I\u2019m going to tell you right now, people are not okay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3264\">Graham death sets up succession drama in South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>We are wired for certainty, but the road ahead is rocky<\/h2>\n<p>For workers struggling with the current pace of change, Brown said that the solution is certainty\u2014but in reality, that\u2019s becoming harder to find.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are wired for certainty, and we\u2019re wired to get to certainty as soon as possible. And the more uncertainty that we\u2019re in, the more really hard feedback we get from our bodies,\u201d Brown continued. \u201cWe\u2019re not wired for the kind of leadership I think we need right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her comments come as tech leaders are divided on what the future holds in an increasingly AI-driven work landscape. With more and more roles being automated, Goodwill\u2019s CEO said he\u2019s preparing for an influx of Gen Z workers, since white-collar roles are being snatched up by the tech. Other executives like Jeff Bezos predict that AI will enable \u201cmillions of people\u201d to live in space, while robots continue to take on more human jobs. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates also sees rapid change ahead, with a two-day workweek possibly on the books owing to efficiency gains from AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s improving at a rate that surprises me,\u201d Gates told CNNin an interview in 2025. \u201cAI today can replace human work, the most complex coding tasks, [but] it\u2019s not able to do [it] yet. And people in the field disagree: Is that within the next year or two, or is it more like 10 years away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not all hope is lost\u2014Brown insists when CEOs are aware of the upheaval their staffers are going through, they have the power to navigate the disruption with empathy and trust.<\/p>\n<p>She said leaders need to sit down with their staff to discuss what best practice looks like within the business, and what the best ways are to work with one another.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne [capability] that I think is so lacking today that it\u2019s shocking \u2026 is deep, complex understanding of systems theory,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t understand that the world that we\u2019re operating in today is built of systems inextricably connected to other systems, and that if you move one Lego piece an inch over here, you\u2019ve got fallout over here, you\u2019re not going to be able to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3262\">James Murdoch may have reaped as much as $7.5 billion from his pre-IPO investment in Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story was published on Fortune.com on October 21, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople are emotionally dysregulated, distrustful, and disconnected,\u201d bestselling author and professor Bren\u00e9 Brown warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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