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A new study finds a surprising proportion of Americans work in hectic, stressful, and often hostile environments. The joint study, conducted by the Rand Corporation, Harvard Medical School and UCLA found that almost 20 percent of workers say the atmosphere at work is often threatening, including harassment, bullying and abusive. In addition, more than half of all workers surveyed claim their workplace conditions are dangerous, and roughly 75 percent are performing "intense or repetitive physical" labor much of the time. As might be expected, the study found that education played a large part in working conditions, with workers with less education performing more hard physical labor than those with college degrees, while also having much less autonomy on the job with regards to breaks and scheduling. Researchers expressed surprise at the results of the study, and speculated that difficult working conditions may be keeping Americans from joining the ranks of the employed.