Worth Reading – What Happens at Home Doesn’t Stay There: Why Family Mental Health Is a Workplace Priority

This is a good reminder that your people are human and bring all of their human selves to work, whether you like it or not.

Employee wellbeing doesn’t start at the office. It starts in the home—in the emotional ripple effects of caregiving, conflict, and stress.

https://www.springhealth.com/blog/family-mental-health-workplace

Good workplaces understand the stresses their people bring to work already; poor workplaces ignore them and demand that people are always willing and able to respond to work needs. This is why fully flexible work, not just remote work, is a hill worth dying on, because there are too many people around us who cannot work and meet their family’s needs without it.

There are people around us every day dealing with burdens we have no clue about. This includes people who work for you. Those burdens don’t disappear the second they cross the threshold into the workplace. They come to work with us, and they have an impact on us. Caring workplaces find ways to help, not hinder.

Read the link above and consider all of the things people bring from home with them, and how you can help.

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