Jonathan Frostick on life since his viral LinkedIn post about his heart attack | Bournemouth Echo

A FINANCE industry worker whose experience of a heart attack moved people around the world has told how the episode changed his life. In a LinkedIn post that went viral at the end of April, Jonathan Frostick said his first reaction to being taken ill while working at home was: “This isn’t convenient.” The emergency led to him vowing no longer to spend all day on Zoom and to change his attitude to work. Mr Frostick’s post garnered 298,000 reactions on LinkedIn, along with 15,550 comments, and was picked up by the New York Times, Bloomberg, CBS News and others. READ MORE: Manager’s heart attack sparks work stress concerns “It was humbling, actually,” the 45-year-old father of three told the Daily Echo. “It was humbling that it resonated with so many people. “I’ve still got messages via LinkedIn that I haven’t even seen. People said ‘I’m reading your post, I’m changing my life’. People were writing to say ‘I have to quit my work, life is too short’. It had an impact.” Other people gave positive examples of how their employers were supporting people through the pandemic. “Where I work, there was already a policy of safeguarding in place, there…
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