Written by Melody Jakob, HR consultant and project manager, Quicksearch
Christmas is just around the corner and there are not many working hours left in 2017. It still feels difficult to sum up the year, but I would like to highlight one thing...
In my work as an HR consultant and project manager for employee surveys, I have daily contact with companies and organizations that work in various ways with health-promoting work climates, leadership and employees. How to best prepare your organization for a reorganization? How do we measure culture and what did the new employees think of their induction?
One thing is certain and that is that all organizations are unique. Despite that, I think there are two common areas that are basically ALWAYS noticed when talking about HR. The first is about the handling of unhealthy stress and sick leave. Almost ALL employers work in one way or another to create health-promoting workplaces with reasonable workloads, which is also part of their responsibility. But creating balance in everyday life is not always that simple and where does the employer's responsibility end? There's no easy answer to that question, but what I've come to think of is that it doesn't matter how good the score is on an employee survey - the questions about workload and stress stand out in most cases. Unfortunately in a negative way.
The second area deals with the employer's responsibilities linked to #metoo-campaign, which hardly escaped anyone during this autumn. Both of these areas are about our well-being and are a large part of the systematic work environment work.
At the same time as there are terrible events that happened and were discovered in #metoo and at the same time that the sick leave numbers continue to increase, I want to say that it is fantastic to see how well many of you out there get involved and take great responsibility in these types of issues. This means i.a. to investigate curiously, carry out preventive activities and to continuously follow up on the business. And that is probably exactly what I want to highlight like this at the end of the working year 2017. Cheers to all of you who do not accept unhealthy working conditions. Who can work with this consistently and long-term and who believe that 2018 will be a better working year!
Our surveys and consulting services are available as support for working with this type of question. If you want to know more about this, you can talk to me or one of my colleagues. Do not hesitate to call.
In conclusion, I would like to offer 5 simple tips for how to have a better Christmas:
- Turn off notifications on your phone. Or better yet, put your phone away when you're with friends and family. It will be more sociable that way.
- Leave work at work. Take the opportunity to talk about something else this Christmas. It will be nicer that way.
- Sleep in and allow yourself to just be. It will be nicer that way.
- Skip or cut back on alcohol this Christmas. It gets better that way.
- Take the opportunity to enjoy a little extra food, coziness and time off. It will be more beautiful that way!
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