Urgent: Stress and Anxiety at the Workplace
John Baldino
President @ Humareso | Human Resources Strategy, Talent Management, HR Tech and more!
Remember the kid who got picked last in kickball? Perhaps it was you standing there feeling the anxiety of others being scooped up to a team while you hang out there in social purgatory. It’s a recipe for a core memory that you’d prefer not to have.
Fast forward 15-20 years and here we are at the workplace. Kickball teams are still being picked. It may not be as formal or as obvious as recess protocols, but sides are picked, nonetheless. We want to believe that we’ve moved on from that. We want to believe that we are grown up and that we treat people better. And here we are with anxiety as the top issue workers are facing.
It is totally understandable that some of the anxiety is unavoidable. Job performance metrics tied to compensation or promotion, difficult clients or customers, grueling industries that operate seven days a week…these factors and more can cause a fair bit of stress and anxiety. An organization cannot apologize for these truths (unless it’s causing them!) but rather work transparently to inform those interested in coming into the company or moving forward with it as to what the realities are. Then, those candidates/employees can assess their capability to handle such stress.
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7 个月Necessary, not optional! Yes! We have to talk about this and do more. In my clinical and non-clinical work I'm seeing the impact of stress strongly in IT, cybersecurity, and tech in general. People in these fields face an enormous amount of stress and related anxiety since working under a security mindset is necessary for their roles. But there's not a lot of thought given by their organizations to how the very thing that's keeping them safe is also undermining safety - for their people and their business.
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7 个月All too true an issue. Not only in the workplace but at home too. I’m always concerned about the the generation that was raised on social media platforms. All too often, they rely on what’s posted as a source of truth and try to hold themselves to what may and many not be reality.