Linked: 2021 Mind the Workplace Report
If you care about the mental health of your employees, this report might be of interest to you. From the takeaways, we can already see that things are not going well:
-
-
Career | Links | Mental Health
Linked: How to be vulnerable at work without spilling everything, from Brené Brown
One of the real struggles when trying to bring our whole selves to the workplace, including our struggles, is that often, the details don’t need to be widely shared. Sometimes because the details involve other people, or there are things that we don’t feel comfortable sharing, yet we can ask for help and support. This goes for family and friendships too.
-
The Workplace Disconnect Around Burnout
“Take time for self care, do some yoga, here’s a fun event we scheduled for you, but we still expect you to get 50-60 hours worth of work done this week.”
That’s a hell of a message.
-
Career | Links | Mental Health
Linked: Time to end workplace stigma of mental health treatment for employees
Annalise describes a fairly typical situation, and what goes through our minds when we try to decide whether to say anything at work: “Let’s take something as simple as, theoretically: “My therapist is booked because demand is so high. I need treatment but they only have morning appointments available.” That may wrack your employee with…
-
A Completely Non-Scientific View of Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace
A little over a week ago, I came clean on my other blog, and social media. I admitted that I’m just really not OK.
If you’ve read the post, then you also know that when I mention mental health stigma, I’m not really talking about what happened with my workplace. No, that was exactly what I would want to happen. But, what I noticed was what happened kind of out in public, after the fact.
-
Linked: How to Keep Work Stress from Taking Over Your Life
I think we can all see a lot of workplaces in this intro, so these resources can be very useful in helping us understand how to not let the stress of work ruin our health: “Work-related stress can get the best of us all. Emails, Slack messages, phones ringing off the hook, your co-worker dropping…
