If Emotional Intelligence continues to be a highly valued assessment tool, as it appears it is now, should companies start paying more attention to the stress quotient in the equation?

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Not knowing if the house would be lost or the utilities shut off could force many significant others, spouses and children to pile onto the equation with their own additional negative stress.

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