Mental Health Issues In The Workplace

A stressed-out employee is a liability to your business. And odds are, there is more than one stressed-out employee in your midst.

Stress comes in many forms, from many directions, and can affect everything from physical health to mental well being to the ability to function at work.

For employers, whether stress is work-related or not matters … Continue Reading »

Your workers probably won’t send out an SOS when they’re sinking under the weight of too much work.

These days, with corporate layoffs so prevalent and employees determined to avoid showing weakness of any kind, voicing a complaint about being overloaded just doesn’t seem like an option.

But from your perspective, it should be.

Employees who are dealing … Continue Reading »

Stress. In small doses, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

It can provide just the amount of motivation you need to accomplish what needs doing: laundry, yard work, taxes, and the like.

But when stress becomes more than just a motivator, it can do a lot more harm than good.

Without proper coping mechanisms, an overload of stress … Continue Reading »

Productivity depends on your workers being at their sharpest.

But with the fast-paced life and varied obligations many full-time workers face, many of them struggle to do the things necessary to bring their best to the office.

Such factors result in fatigue, which is a potential workplace epidemic.

Sleep habits suffer, physical activity is often pushed … Continue Reading »

For employers, improving workers’ mood is about more than just keeping the peace at the office.

A bad mood can not only cause excessive conflict among employees, but on an individual level it can have physical effects such as high blood pressure.

Mood may be linked to depression, anxiety, lost sleep, and increased stress levels, which … Continue Reading »

Looking for a new angle in your approach to health and wellness promotion? Think stress management.

Stress is an important focus because of its effects on your workers’ mental and physical health as well as on their ability to function efficiently and effectively at work.

Though it’s an unavoidable aspect of life (and actually has certain benefits, … Continue Reading »

Need another reason to encourage your employees to work out? A new study gives you a good one.

The research shows that exercise, already the cornerstone to health and wellness, may also boost brain power.

According to HealthDay, the researchers examined such cognitive functions as muscle control, executive function (a type of cognition that includes working memory, … Continue Reading »

You do your best to help your employees alleviate work-related stress.

Successfully doing so facilitates a more effective, well-adjusted, better-functioning staff. But what about when garden-variety stress breeds anxiety?

Anxiety can stop even the best employees in their tracks. It affects sleep, lifestyle habits, and quality of life, all the things that combine to make or break … Continue Reading »

In the quest to build a healthy staff, it’s easy to focus so much on certain aspects that you inadvertently neglect others.

If obesity and obesity-related medical problems are prevalent among your employees, for example, you probably spend a great deal of time and effort educating them about weight-loss measures and promoting diet and exercise.

Physical health … Continue Reading »

Multitasking is the name of the game in today’s fast-paced world, but odds are it’s not doing you, your employees, or any one of those tasks any good.

Trying to juggle too much at work, at home, or both breeds stress, decreases quality of output, and opens the door to careless errors and potentially costly mistakes. … Continue Reading »