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Human Resource Executive
As employees return to the workplace, profit and productivity aren’t the only concerns on their employers’ mind.
The mental health of workers ranks high on everyone’s list; some employees will be fearful to return because they have no idea what will meet them at the door.
Will their job or job tasks be the same? What new policies and procedures will they have to observe? What if some employees don’t wear a mask?
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Medical Xpress
People's social lives aren't what they used to be. But exactly how they've changed and what it might mean for mental health is what psycho-linguistic researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are trying to figure out in the Pandemic Project. The researchers recently conducted a series of surveys and analyses on thousands of Reddit comments to understand the ways people are thinking and talking about the current pandemic.
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EHS Today
With all of the confusion surrounding different states’ decisions over the re-opening of businesses shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, and new perplexities raised by managing a fearful and sometimes remote workforce, employers may be concerned about whether they have been doing the right things to prepare their workers for the future.
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HR Daily Advisor
In the busy, performance-driven workplaces of today, it is easy for employees to find themselves under constant stress. Stress found in the workplace can affect not only employees’ work product but also their mental and physical health. While workplace stress is common, companies can do more to reduce employees’ stress and create a healthier environment.
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Employee Benefit News
As if managing ever-increasing benefits costs while creating a competitive benefits package and producing an effective annual enrollment isn’t a big enough task for most employers, here comes the coronavirus with a whole new set of challenges.
How can you continue to protect your most valuable resource — your employees — if your business is struggling?
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Physician's Briefing
Coronavirus antibody test results may not be accurate enough to help guide decisions about whether to allow large groups of people to gather at work, schools, dormitories, correctional facilities, and other locations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently.
The agency also said too little is known about what the presence of antibodies means in terms of a person's future immunity, CBS News reported.
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HR Dive
Employees may be working more now than prior to the pandemic, other studies have shown. According to analysis from Clockwise, employees are spending 24% more time in one-on-one meetings and 29% more time in "team sync" meetings — on top of additional "fragmented time," or time that Clockwise defines as shorter than two hours for focused work.
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Psych Central
Our mental health and mortality appear to be significantly linked to the amount of autonomy we have at work, as well as our workload, job demands and our cognitive ability to deal with those demands, according to a new study at Indiana University.
The study, titled “This Job Is (Literally) Killing Me: A Moderated-Mediated Model Linking Work Characteristics to Mortality,” is published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
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Entrepreneur
Organizations should recognize that if you take care of culture, then the customer experience and profits will take care of themselves. Putting your people at the center of your thinking and decision-making will never steer you in the wrong direction.
Culture is experienced in every employee’s actions, 365 days of the year. It is not about the organizational perks, being perfect or being tied to a rigid set of rules.
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BenefitsPRO
Do we have telehealth benefits? Who do I call to get counseling for my daughter? I know I missed open enrollment, but can I make one small change?
To the dismay of many HR benefit professionals these questions are all too familiar, especially given the significant amount of time, money and people resources dedicated to offering turn-key benefits to their workforce.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Yoga is associated with a reduction in depressive symptoms among adults with a diagnosed mental health disorder, according to a review published recently in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Jacinta Brinsley, from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify randomized controlled trials comparing a physically active yoga intervention to a waitlist control among adults with a recognized diagnosed mental disorder.
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Personnel Today
Employees are more likely to turn to alcohol when experiencing work-related stress at home than switch off their work phone, research has found.
Just 25% said they would switch off their phone when they felt overwhelmed by work, but 26% said they would have an alcoholic drink.
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Forbes
You may have employees that have lost loved ones. Compounding the grief, many were not able to attend a funeral or memorial service due to social distancing guidelines. Many people who died of COVID-19 died alone, or with medical staff holding up a phone or tablet so a patient could see their family and friends one last time.
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ScienceDaily
Yale researchers have found a neural home of the feeling of stress people experience, an insight that may help people deal with the debilitating sense of fear and anxiety that stress can evoke, Yale researchers report recently in the journal Nature Communications.
Brain scans of people exposed to highly stressful and troubling images — such as a snarling dog, mutilated faces or filthy toilets — reveal a network of neural connections emanating throughout the brain from the hippocampus, an area of the brain that helps regulate motivation, emotion and memory.
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