Our management team met today. One of the discussions was about bringing in a mental health and family counselor to teach our mid level managers how to help our staff. I am not sure if it is coincidence or if this is a trend, but our staff have had more family deaths and serious illnesses in the past 6 months than we have seen in years - and it is taking its toll. We have about 200 staff members and weve had about 10% with a death in the family...in just the past month cancer, a heart attack and H1n1 claimed three family members lives...their ages... 68, 41 and 17...).. and another 7% with serious illness. (Not including the number of staff who have been sick, gotten injured, or suffering serious financial issues.)
Additionally, our staff work with our members who are also experiencing some of the toughest hardships in their lives...
Is anyone else noticing similar trends???
Its very sad. I love that my job understands how much impact this is having on staff, and that we are taking steps (proactively) to help!
I spent $8 on a salad at lunch today... CLEARLY I am not sticking to the lunch challenge too well, but it was a healthy salad. If that counts. lol
Second hand smoke....or the side effects to a rotten economy....
March 23rd, 2011 at 02:34 am
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Do you have some sort of employee assistance program where people can grieve, and can one employee donate sick leave to another? Small items but they offer a little bit of control both to the people who are suffering and a way for the luckier employees to help.
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