{"id":945140,"date":"2026-10-29T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945140\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:12:12","slug":"frank-and-fearless-2026-unpacking-workplace-stress-in-the-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945140\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank and Fearless 2026: Unpacking workplace stress in the public service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although almost half (46%) of respondents to The Mandarin\u2019s 2026 Frank and Fearless survey say they\u2019re experiencing high or very high stress at work, IPAA ACT deputy president Letitia Hope cautioned this shouldn\u2019t be interpreted as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/322473-stewardship-psychological-safety-and-the-public-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">purely a wellbeing story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStress in these workplaces can arise when accountability exceeds influence or control,\u201d Hope said in a Mandarin Live webinar discussing the key survey results. \u201cPublic servants carry significant responsibilities for outcomes, and enormous responsibilities to community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although almost half (46%) of respondents to The Mandarin\u2019s 2026 Frank and Fearless survey say they\u2019re experiencing high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,512392,137,37922,251590,512393,512394,514,515,512395],"class_list":["post-945140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-frank-and-fearless-2026","tag-health","tag-indeed","tag-lauren-anderson","tag-letitia-hope","tag-mandarin-talks","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-peter-gearin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}