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" Leaders and corporate wellness providers must embrace these changes, expand their offerings, to develop more robust programming to engage remote employees" When work transitioned from being in the office to working from home, many corporate wellness programmes...
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Competent employee assistance professionals (EAPs) working online should, at the very least, adhere to a set of minimum standards and practices in order to be considered to be working to an ethical and professional standard while using technology. Here is a South...
Mental Health and Wellness in the Post-Covid Workplace
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, many employees have been thrust into isolation and loneliness and have had to endure grief at the loss of friends and loved ones; they have experienced general anxiety about the future and been overwhelmed by juggling work with...
Absenteeism and Presenteeism – Two Things that Should Matter to Every Organisation
It is likely that you have heard the terms ‘absenteeism’ and ‘presenteeism’ spoken of as two of the barometers of employee-wellbeing, but do you understand the serious connotations of high levels of absenteeism or presenteeism and how much of an impact these workplace...
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Not only have Human Resources professionals been involved in maintaining employees' health and wellbeing during the pandemic, they have also been put under the stress of having to provide moral support while seeing to the administration for the vast number of workers...
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2020 has taught us a lot of things, with one major lesson being: Tech skills are a virtual necessity among employees, particularly because companies are fast-tracking their adoption of digital technologies. For many organisations the coronavirus pandemic has...
Work-life balance or work-life harmony? A modern perspective
Over the years, a rise in the usage of digital technology has blurred the boundary between work and personal life and the phrase “work-life balance” became a business buzzword to support the concept that employees should avoid letting work overtake their lives. But,...
EAP – An Industry Plunged Headlong into Disruption
The pressures brought to bear by the COVID-19 pandemic have meant a wholesale increase in stress, anxiety and mental illness for people across the globe. As more and more employees transition toward a blend of working from home and being at their workplace, their...
Assisting Employees in the Face of Trauma
What is trauma? Trauma is a human response to a terrible event that an individual finds highly stressful, for example being in an accident, experiencing a natural disaster or living in a war zone. While not everyone who experiences a stressful incident will develop...
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For the first time, as of mid-2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially recognised burnout as an occupational phenomenon, citing that it is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. This condition now appears...