Moderating Role of Daily Walking Between Productivity and Generalized Anxiety among Millennial Employees of San Pablo City

Millennial workers face serious mental health problems, which decrease their productivity because they experience work-related stress from digital exhaustion and their need to meet high performance expectations. Objective: This study examined how daily walking affects the link between perceived stress and generalized anxiety with workplace productivity in San Pablo City millennial employees. Methods: I conducted a quantitative, non-experimental, correlational study that utilized proportional stratified random sampling to collect data from 210 millennial employees. Standardized assessment tools, including PSS-10, GAD-7, WPAI, and IPAQ-SF, were used to conduct moderation analysis using Hayes' PROCESS Macro. The study participants displayed moderate stress levels, which reached a mean of 20.23, while they had moderate anxiety levels, which reached a mean of 10.44. Following a reverse-scoring mathematical transformation of the activity metrics to isolate the moderation effect, participants' daily walking activity yielded a standardized composite index score average of 4.58. The study found a significant but weak link between productivity losses and generalized anxiety, which reached a statistical significance level of p<0.05. The analysis of moderation showed that daily walking serves as a moderating factor, dampening the adverse relationship between anxiety and productivity at work. Daily walking functions as an essential adaptive resource that buffers the negative variations that anxiety introduces into their work performance.