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Among current changes taking place at the worksite are shifts from goods-producing to service type operations, expanding use of computer technology, more women in the workforce and in jobs traditionally held by men, and persons remaining actively employed beyond usual retirement age. These changes suggest new or broadened definitions of the terms- health, stress, and workload, which will extend the more typical kinds of human factors inquiry. This paper describes the nature of these changes as well as the agenda of human factors efforts which they portend.
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Cohen, A. (1987). Health, Stress, And Workload In An Era Of Workplace Change. In: Mark, L.S., Warm, J.S., Huston, R.L. (eds) Ergonomics and Human Factors. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4756-2_16
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