Category: Workplace wellness

May 19, 2022

Human resource professionals say substance misuse by employees worsened due to the added stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, though employees were better able to hide addictions when working in hybrid and remote settings. Lisa Bertola, a Boston-based senior health consultant […]

May 17, 2022

Asthma + Lung UK has said that in the past six months around half a million people have visited its online long Covid health advice or called its helpline for wide-ranging symptoms, including breathlessness and persistent coughs. The numbers of […]

May 16, 2022

A few weeks ago, a rare thing occurred for the HR world — an employment law story went viral. A jury awarded a Kentucky man $450,000 after his employer, Gravity Diagnostics, failed to stop staff from throwing a birthday party […]

May 12, 2022

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, HRD America commissioned a survey from Blind, the anonymous professional social network, to understand employer support for mental health. The results were startling: only 41% of employees believe their employer supports their mental […]

May 12, 2022

As the workplace continues to rearrange itself in the wake of the pandemic, burnout has taken its toll. An October survey from the Society for Human Resources Management showed that employees who stayed put during the Great Resignation were struggling […]

May 11, 2022

You wake up excited about your day and ready to take on life. Every day, new hacks and tricks are coming out to help you optimize as a high performer. Without getting into all the new-age methods, some of those […]

May 11, 2022

It’s no surprise that tensions are high among employees, as prices for gas, food and other consumer goods skyrocket due to historic inflation. Nearly three quarters (72%) of HR leaders agree that stress resulting from cost-of-living increases is negatively impacting […]

May 6, 2022

Harassment is “unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy), national origin, older age (beginning at age 40), disability, or genetic information (including family medical history),” according to the EEOC, and […]

May 5, 2022

Last year, nearly half of employed Americans reported feeling mentally and physically exhausted at the end of the day, and 41 percent identified that feeling as burnout. If your company has experienced record-high resignations lately, perhaps none of this comes […]

April 27, 2022

During the Great Resignation of 2021, more than 47 million Americans left their jobs. While some left for better pay and career advancement, according to a recent survey, a majority of people who quit their jobs left for one simple […]