Stress is also not something to ignore, it impacts your mental health and often leads to long term absences from the workplace.
Traditionally, stress has been left for the employee to deal with, however in recent years there has been a large push for employers to intervein and provide more than enough support for employees.
If you’re an employer or want work with your employer to better your workplace, here are some things employers can do to work through stress in the workplace.
Identify Stress Points –
Failing to identify stress will mean the stress will continue within the workplace.
Employers can be conducting regular surveys and one on one reviews to identify these stress points and further work with employees to find a solution.
This falls into the over-arching need for constant staff wellbeing checks to ensure the workplace is happy and working well together.
Train Management –
Managers oversee employee wellbeing which involves setting deadlines, communicating expectations, and celebrating successes whilst improving failures.
Some managers are better than others at this which is why training management is crucial to workplace wellbeing.
Whilst striving for success, managers need to be compassionate and listen to employees to ensure people remain happy and healthy at work.
Talk to your current employees or colleagues and evaluate how they see management, there is always room for training!
Put Someone in Charge of Wellbeing –
Across workplaces, wellbeing and stress is handled by different people.
To some its HR, others management and in some situations a trusted colleague.
In successful workplaces, someone is clearly identified as the point of contact if you are being inundated by stress at work.
It is good practice to identify this person in the workplace and train them, this way employees will have an easily identifiable point of contact when issues arise.