The conversation around Covid-19 has frequently been steeped in doom and gloom, but what goes too often unmentioned is that it has also fueled positive effects in the workplace. One of these is a new culture of empathy around the conditions of peoples’ lives and their mental health. That latter topic had been stigmatized for decades, to a point where employees felt uncomfortable speaking about personal mental health experiences, but the pandemic accelerated the conversation and presented an opportunity to embrace employees’ intersectional experiences, and not just the work they produce.
