Small doses of anxiety in the workplace can make us better at our jobs

We've all been told that anxiety can ruin performance. But according to a new study, small doses of it at work can make you better at your job by keeping you focused and motivated. A total lack of anxiety in the workplace, while perhaps rare, may even lead to an unmotivated workforce, researchers claim. Workers who overcome their anxiety and channel it into their jobs may make more effective employees, research suggests. The discovery was made by researchers are the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTS), who looked at the results of previous research on anxiety.