Time to spread the epidemic of happiness in your company!
As the nation continues to tackle the second wave, India’s workforce stays greatly impacted professionally and personally. While the recent few months did see us struggling to crawl back to normalcy, little did we know that the dip in Covid cases was actually the lull before the storm.
Rima, a young marketing professional who joined her new company was looking forward to sit at her workstation and zoom out of virtual meeting rooms to mingle with her new colleagues in the office boardroom.
Raghav the creative professional has been missing his office bean bag, which he fondly calls the Eureka spot.
For Trisha, the strategy leader and home manager, Work from Home, has translated into Work 24/7 managing both, her job and her 2 year old toddler.
Today the misery and fear of the pandemic surrounds professionals in some way or the other, as the management and its team struggle to bring back the smile on sales curves, somewhere the smile of contentment and happiness among the workforce seems to have faded.
A recent study states that two in five Indian professionals face stress due to Covid- 19. Almost 60 % of professionals state that they felt lonely at some point while working remotely. The early months of the lockdown, saw only 23% Indian professionals being offered emotional well- being initiatives and flexible working hours.
Sadly, ever since the pandemic began, well-being of oneself, work-life balance and job security has been the core challenges across organizations till today.
Today, the need of the hour is for leaders to step in and don a role that goes beyond being the guardians of their organization. These tough times expect us to empower employees with optimism like never before and help them see the glass half full.
Here are few practices that we company leaders could adopt to keep the morale of our people high.
- Constant communication
- Mental health wellness programs
- Yoga sessions for mind, body, and the soul
I would like to add Music - the umbrella of happiness, to the list. Why I say this is because music has the inherent power to protect the emotional well-being of individuals.
Music is a great mood lifter, a universally acknowledged therapy for mental wellness, a great community builder and much more. The diverse ocean of possibilities that it brings, makes it the multi-faceted application for the heart, mind and the soul.
Friends, today we are going through challenging times like never before. But we can emerge stronger than the storm if we keep our real strength, i.e. our company people intact. Let’s not allow the pandemonium of the pandemic to silence the happiness of our people. Let us bring them the harmony they need. Let’s help stay in tune with their best.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/two-in-five-indian-professionals-experiencing-stress-due-to-covid-19-linkedin/articleshow/78550862.cms
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3 年The problem is real and the organizations need to tackle it with a genuine concern and commitment. A cosmetic approach of organizing wellness programmers without serious concern will only conceal the issue at a superficial level. Radhika Mukherji, you have captured the essence of what people are going through. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.