Linked: 4 Ways To Deal With Burnout
This NPR podcast offers some good tips for us as individuals, but I was glad to see that they also recognized that if work is causing us burnout, there’s another entity involved who needs to do something about it.
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Linked: The UK’s Mental Health Issues in the Workplace – 5 statistics
The other statistics in this article point out what kind of impact those two facts above have on the bottom line, but I’m going to take issue with the importance they are given in this article. Don’t just make changes in your workplace culture because it’s better for the bottom line, do it because it’s the right thing to do for the human beings who work for you. They aren’t lines on a spreadsheet, they are people, with lives outside of work, who you have an opportunity to support. The fact that supporting them might also help your bottom line is nice, but irrelevant to the larger issue.
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Linked: Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
I think the headline really speaks for the entire article. We can get all the self-care tips in the world, do yoga on the regular, eat well, and everything else, but if we work in a place that regularly requires 60 hour work weeks, ridiculous deadlines, and doesn’t really give us some control over work that we enjoy, that’s still going to be a recipe for burnout.
If you have any employees that report to you, go read the article and consider what it is that you are doing with your own workplace. Are they headed for burnout? Do you care enough to make changes to avoid that? Or is that “just the way it is” in your industry? If it is, ask yourself why it’s that way? Is there actually a legitimate reason for it? Or are you just so engrained in it that you can’t imagine rethinking the way your industry works?
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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.
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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 21, 2021
UniCourt Influencer Q&A with Amanda Brown of Lagniappe Law Lab
More bosses are using software to monitor remote workers. Not everyone is happy about it
Corporate E-Discovery Insourcing Runs Straight Into Talent, and Culture, Walls
Filter Out Annoying Facebook Posts With These Tools
– Learn some tools to take control over your own newsfeed.
3 Insights Following the Water Facility Attack
A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy
Legal Tech Innovation: The Future is Bright
Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job
Redaction – good news from Relativity but less good for some others
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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 14, 2021
How Changes to E-discovery Can Help You in Practice
Building a culture of learning at work
Why Laura Prael’s business LEP Digital will always run four days a week
– Interesting thoughts on the benefits of working fewer hours.
Court Enforces Strict Sanctions for Failing to Be Competent in ESI Obligations
Working Moms Are Struggling. Here’s What Would Help.
It’s Safer Internet Day—Here Are 4 Services to Keep You Safer Online
How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary)
Four ways to boost mental health conversations at work
6 Tips for Professionals with High-Functioning Anxiety
10 Top Technology Tools for the Small Firm Lawyer
Employees should design their own work time, P&G HR Director says
