Jirs Meuris, Assistant Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at Wisconsin School of Business, provides expertise based on his extensive research on financial stress and worker productivity. Meuris discussed his studies, and as well as the broader organizational effects, showing that the more worried employees were about their personal finances, the more accident- and error-prone they were in their work. Meuris was interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace, The Atlantic, and Wiscosnin Public Radio. Links to media coverage:

• The Atlantic, Yet Another Reason to End the Shutdown
• Marketplace on NPR, When it was supposed to be payday
• Wisconsin Public Radio, Government Shutdown Highlights Organizational Costs Of Financial Insecurity