Refreshing your employees' morale in the wake of restructuring Restructuring and layoffs are difficult yet common parts of the corporate experience. With more companies than ever going through these processes amid COVID-19 and its related economic damage, it's worth carefully considering how employee morale is affected by company changes amid restructuring. A serious threat [...]
There's a talent shortage — do your benefits stand out? Employees, having weathered a difficult and transformative year of work, are changing the way they think about their careers. One of the main ways this is manifesting is in mass job changes, adding up to a "Great Resignation" and talent shortage. This is obviously [...]
Employees’ health and well-being, mental and physical, depend on factors that go beyond their work lives. Day-to-day experiences have an impact on employees' feelings and outlook, as do global issues from technological evolution to climate change. It's time to start thinking bigger when creating wellness in the workplace. On a practical level, this means [...]
The recent movement toward hybrid and fully remote work has brought plenty of pros, but it can also have a dark side. Without an office to congregate in, leaders may start to see signs of loneliness among their teams. While loneliness and isolation may have once seemed like abstract concepts — hard to observe [...]
It’s safe to say we’ve all experienced the weight of the world on our shoulders the past 16 months. Even as that weight is beginning to lift as the world slowly reopens again, the global pandemic has left its mark on us for years to come. The mental exhaustion of the pandemic is causing [...]
As employers start to transition their employees back into the office, they need to realize they are bringing back employees potentially struggling with mental health and well-being issues due to the lingering effects of the pandemic. In fact, 86 percent of employers surveyed rated emotional health as one of the top three drivers of [...]
Companies have been starting to take a sigh of relief that they have somehow managed to problem-solve their way through a global pandemic. But companies may need to hold their breath again as they brace for the war for talent: more than a quarter of their employees may leave.1 Employees are thinking big moves, [...]
Employees are beginning to return to the office in large numbers. It’s a moment of normalcy in a year that’s been anything but normal. Yet it’s causing employee stress—very different stress from work-from-home fatigue and isolation, but real stress nonetheless. May’s Mental Health Index by Total Brain surveyed workers and found that nearly two-thirds [...]
Work-from-home may have been a necessity for public health, but over the past 14 months, it’s taken its toll on our physical and mental health. While the mental health crisis of the last year has been well documented, we’re just beginning to see some of the consequences of makeshift work-from-home workstations. The quick shift [...]
May is Mental Health Month. First observed in 1949, Mental Health Month is intended to increase awareness of the essential role mental health and wellness plays in finding that crucial support for employees — and how many millions of people suffer in silence. Given the challenges and difficulties of the last year, there is [...]
