Workplace Fatigue, Mental Health, And Stress: An Employer’s Responsibilities

Is employee stress your fault? Regardless, it’s your job to alleviate it to retain staff.

The pandemic has further eroded workplace safety and productivity. There used to be a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. Your employees grasped onto vaccines, falling case rates, and loosening restrictions to lead them and their work back to normalcy. The Delta variant changed all that—they are now losing hope, giving up, ignoring responsibilities, and quitting. As your team members suffer, you need to act quickly to restore their mental health.

More than 90% of employers are concerned about mental health and chronic stress affecting their workers’ fitness for duty, according to the results of a survey by the National Safety Council. You must recognize these concerns and take immediate practical steps to address mental health challenges. With staffing shortages and a tough recruiting market, it is essential to protect your existing employees.

• How has COVID-19 upended how we handle almost everything?
• What is the top mental stressor that will hit everyone at the same time?
• Why is fatigue a dire safety problem?
• How does stress manifest itself at work?
• How do stressed employees cause problems for colleagues?
• What 12 practical steps can you take to help employees lower stress?
• How does the ADA address mental health?