Nearly 30% of U.S. employees say their manager is too stressed to help them at work, according to a recent LinkedIn News survey. Responses varied by industry. Hospitals and healthcare ranked fourth-highest, with 31% of respondents indicating their managers were too stressed to be of aid. LinkedIn surveyed 14,680 U.S. professionals, excluding owners and C-suite executives, between June 14 and Sept. 19.

The industries that reported higher rates of manager stress were retail (36%), transportation, logistics, supply chain and storage (36%), and arts and recreation (34%).  Across sectors, managers have become increasingly stretched due to layoffs. Those remaining after restructuring now oversee roughly three times as many employees as they did a decade ago.  The five lowest-ranked industries w

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