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Quick Thought – What Does It Say That You Need To Shutdown Your Business for People to get a Break?
If the issue is that people are getting burned out because they are either not taking time off, are continuing to work during their time off to avoid being overwhelmed with work that piled up, or are actually being contacted by their team members during their time off, how about we figure out how to create a culture that allows people to disconnect during their time off, instead of literally just closing up shop for a week?
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Career | Links | Mental Health
Linked: Companies hope new benefits will solve your mental health issues. Don’t fall for it.
It’s cool if your company wants to provide an assistance program or pay for access to an app that will help with meditation, etc. Good for them. But, if the source of your mental health issues is the day-to-day stress of working in an understaffed, toxic, environment, for far less money than you’re worth, and they won’t address that? How much do they really care?
Fixing that is going to require a lot more, as the article below points out. How many organizations are willing to make those kinds of changes?
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Linked: Making Work Safe for Mental Illness
We’ve been talking about making the workplace “safe” for a number of years now. First, there were the obvious, physical safety issues, and then the focus on sexual harassment, then on to bullying, and diversity. It’s important. You simply don’t get the best results from employees who don’t feel safe.
And yet, in a time when there is an increasing number of employees dealing with mental health issues, we also need to consider what we do to make sure they feel safe as well, for the same reasons. People who don’t feel safe, will not speak up, will not bring their best work to the table, and might just be looking for a safer work environment.
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Shared Links (weekly) August 29, 2021
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How to create a positive and effective cybersecurity environment instead of a shame culture
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Who’s Worrying About the Mental Health of the Law Firm Leaders?
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Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for August 2021
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How Different Personality Types Cope with an Always-On Culture
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– You really should, it’s so much more than the standard Twitter interface.
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How to Reduce Your Law Firm’s Overhead Costs and Still Be Productive
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Why you and your boss should talk honestly about your mental health
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