In today’s episode, Michelle and Maria shine the light on mental health issues in the workplace. Throughout their discussion, they provide tips on how employers can provide necessary resources to help their staff maintain physical and emotional wellbeing.
Delving into the subject at hand - the mental health issues observed in employees – our hosts address the current burnout rate being seen globally. Due to the pandemic, more employees are seen to take on more roles, causing this burnout and stress. In this extremely timely and crucial episode, Maria and Michelle offer advice to leaders to focus on how their employees are functioning, and to provide resources that can benefit them and their organizations as a whole.
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“Mental health continues to increase as a priority concern for employees.”
“We keep talking about those things like you need to be resilient, you need to bounce back quickly. But what we're ignoring is the fact that it's not always that easy. Sometimes, where people are, it's hard to be there. And it's also hard to bounce back from it without the right support and the right resources.”
“If you want to maximize your employees, it means that you have to look out for their well-being physically and mentally, at least to the point that you're giving them resources.”
“It's not your job to keep someone else healthy. But as an employer, it is your job to find solutions that can help your employees stay healthy if they choose to do so.”
“We live in a culture where we don't acknowledge the stress and the burnout that comes from mental stress.”
“It's funny when it comes to respecting people's time, we do things passive-aggressively to create the stigma that you have to work harder.”
“There's this lack of loyalty to organizations because they have lacked loyalty to their employees.”
“It's time to shift that paradigm, to stop just focusing on what is new, or what's happening or when the new benefits are rolling out. Maybe it's time to engage your leaders in conversations about how their people are doing.”
“You also need to process how, as an organization, or how you as a leader, or how you as an employee are functioning during time off and how you want to re-pivot them.”
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