#workplace-wellbeing — Public Fediverse posts
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Even though this program originated in Philadelphia, it's a great way for job seekers, employers, educators, and service providers to connect with the goal of gaining meaningful employment.
https://neurodiversityemploymentnetwork.org/job-opportunities/
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70% of employees report experiencing burnout at least sometimes — and workload plus unclear priorities are major drivers.
When everything feels urgent, nothing is strategic.
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Does anyone ACTUALLY like open offices? I sure didn't... When I was working in the software development industry, I always felt like I was bothering my coworkers when I had to talk to my clients!
Read here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202411/why-open-offices-dont-work
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Half of employees in the UK say they feel more engaged and productive when their organisation offers mental health support, whether that’s counselling, wellbeing programmes or early-help tools. It’s a reminder that the right resources don’t just reduce distress; they help people thrive. When support is visible and easy to access, everyone benefits.
Source: https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/blog/Key-workplace-mental-health-statistics-for-2024
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Support that’s reactive is no longer enough. Organisations need early, scalable engagement to truly support their people.
Galea provides a private, stigma-free self-check tool for employees, while supporting EAPs and HR teams with organisation-wide insights.
Proactive support can help reduce lost working days, burnout, and disengagement.
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Employers need to prioritize employee mental health if they want to attract new talent
#Canada #MentalHealth #WorkplaceWellbeing #Work #EmployeeWellness #Leadership #HR #FutureOfWork #FlexibleWork #TalentAttraction #Labour #Jobs #Hiring #RemoteWork
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Work-related stress, depression and anxiety led to 17.1 million lost working days last year. Behind every lost day is a person trying to cope with more than the job description. Work is a major part of life and when mental health suffers, everything suffers.
Source: https://www.livecareer.co.uk/career-advice/work-related-stress
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This study links the lived realities of workplace mobbing with response patterns in the Gospel of Luke, offering practical guidelines for using specific biblical narratives more systematically in spiritual counselling and care.
Feel free to give it a read.
Vveinhardt J, Deikus M. The New Testament and Workplace Mobbing: Structuring of Victims’ Experiences. Religions, 2022, 13(11), 1022. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111022#WorkplaceBullying #SpiritualCounselling #WorkplaceWellbeing
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A straight, honest look at what it means to feel unseen at work and how strength grows from it. #CareerTruths #HonestWorkTalk #ProfessionalGrowth #LeadershipThoughts #WorkplaceReality #HighPerformers #CareerMindset #WorkplaceWellbeing #CareerClarity #SanjayKMohindroo
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-you-give-your-best-still-get-overlooked-quiet-truth-mohindroo--9yv6c -
Ever caught yourself spiralling over a workplace setback? What if the real edge is simply how you reappraise stress?
Latest data suggests individuals who reframe stressors raise performance by 21% and slash burnout by 17%.
Emotional skills aren't just soft – they're tactical.
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Let Moxxi hold your hand when she tells you this: If you forced an employee to accept worse conditions and laughed when they said this wasn't acceptable, and asked if they really thought they were worth 10k more a year, and didn't tell anyone when they took a leave of absence, you're not a leader, you're a bully.
Moxxi has been waiting for them to return. Now she's thinking they might never come back. Don't do that. Don't make Moxxi sad.
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The 7 Types of Rest Librarians Actually Need and How to Get Them
I know many of us are struggling right now. Things are rough out there for libraries and for us as people living in the world. When we think about self-care or rest, most of us default to the physical, things like getting enough sleep, maybe squeezing in a workout, or taking a vacation day. And those things matter. But if you’re someone who sleeps eight hours a night, takes your lunch away from your desk, and still feels depleted? You’re not doing self-care wrong. You might be missing the other six types of rest your body and mind need.
There are seven distinct types of rest that we all need to function well. The problem is that we tend to focus on one or two while completely neglecting the others. Sometimes it is because we forget that there is more than one way to rest, sometimes it is because we don’t have a choice.
You know, when I talk about the research around healthy work environments and well-being at work that so many of the conditions that lead to rest deficits aren’t individual problems; they’re organizational ones. This isn’t about librarians needing to be better at self-care. It’s about library workplaces creating conditions where rest is possible.
Let’s look at the seven types and what they look like specifically in library work.
1. Physical Rest: Beyond Sleep and Exercise
Physical rest includes both passive rest (sleep, napping) and active rest (restorative movement like stretching, yoga, or massage). Most of us understand this type of rest, even if we don’t always get enough of it.
What it looks like in libraries: Standing at service desks for hours without breaks. Shelving carts of books. Sitting through back-to-back meetings in uncomfortable chairs. Working split shifts with long commutes. Being expected to come in when you’re sick because there’s no coverage.
What helps: Adequate sleep and vacation time, yes. But also, ergonomic workstations, permission to take actual breaks, and gentle movement during the day.
The institutional piece: Here’s where organizational responsibility comes in. Libraries need staffing levels that allow people to take breaks without guilt. They need to plan for absences during cold and flu season instead of expecting people to work through illness. They need to provide ergonomic equipment without making staff jump through hoops to get it.
The personal piece: I’m someone who prioritizes sleep. Because I’ve struggle with sleep for years, I have good sleep hygiene. But I have had to learned that physical rest also means listening to my body during the day. Sometimes that means doing gentle stretches between video calls. It means using my lunch break to move my body instead of eating at my desk while answering emails. And sometimes it means admitting I need to take a sick day instead of pushing through because I think I should be able to handle it. The older I get, the more I realize that ignoring what my body is telling me just leads to longer recovery times.
2. Mental Rest: When Your Brain Won’t Turn Off
Mental rest is about giving your mind a break from constant decision-making, problem-solving, and information processing. You know you need mental rest when you can’t stop thinking about work, when your brain feels foggy, or when you’re making unusual mistakes.
What it looks like in libraries: Fielding complex reference questions back-to-back. Troubleshooting technology problems all day. Managing competing priorities with inadequate time. Keeping track of multiple projects while being constantly interrupted. Making decisions about collection development, programming, and budgets, often with limited resources and high stakes.
What helps: Short breaks during the workday. Time to think without interruption. Journaling to offload racing thoughts. Mindfulness practices. Even just five minutes of sitting quietly between tasks.
The institutional piece: Libraries need to build in transition time between programs and meetings. They need to create spaces, physical and temporal, where staff can work without interruption. They need to reduce the expectation that everyone should be immediately available at all times. Stop scheduling meetings back-to-back. Stop treating “busy” as a badge of honor.
The personal piece: You know you need mental rest when you’re lying in bed mentally drafting emails or replaying difficult conversations. Journaling before bed can help, not pretty journaling, just brain dumping everything onto paper so it’s not rattling around in your head all night. Try building in a transition time between different types of work. Schedule meetings for 45 minutes or 30 instead of 1 hour. Start meetings a quarter after or 30 minutes passed the hour to help build in breaks for attendees. After a complex project, do something mindless for ten minutes before jumping into the next thing. Your brain needs that reset, even if it feels inefficient in the moment.
3. Sensory Rest: Relief from Overstimulation
We live in a world of constant stimulation, and libraries are no exception. Sensory rest means reducing the input your senses are constantly processing, the screens, the noise, the fluorescent lights, the visual clutter.
What it looks like in libraries: Multiple computer monitors. Fluorescent lighting. Background noise from patrons, phones, printers, and HVAC systems. Too much time on a service desk with no access to a quiet space to decompress. Open floor plans where there’s no escape from stimulation. Being on Zoom calls all day, where you’re constantly watching yourself on screen.
What helps: Stepping away from screens periodically. Close your eyes for a few minutes. Spending time in quiet spaces. Dimming lights when possible. Using noise-canceling headphones in open workspaces (if your role allows).
The institutional piece: Libraries should provide break spaces that aren’t just repurposed storage closets with a microwave, with furniture that was deemed too gross or old for patrons. Create quiet spaces where staff can decompress. Consider lighting options beyond harsh fluorescents. Acknowledge that open office plans, while cost-effective, create sensory overload for many people. And please, stop scheduling full-day video conferences without adequate breaks.
The personal piece: You might not realize how much sensory overload is affecting you until you have a contrast. Many librarians discovered this during the pandemic when working from home. The difference between an open office environment and a quieter home space can be stark. Even when you’re working, be more intentional about reducing sensory input. Close unnecessary browser tabs. Turn off Outlook notifications during focus time. Take your glasses off and close your eyes for a few minutes when you feel that overstimulated buzzing in your head. Take your lunch away from your desk. Get out of the building and experience nature, look up at the sky, even for a few minutes. Look out a window. These seem like small things, but they make a real difference in how depleted you feel at the end of the day.
4. Emotional Rest: Permission to Be Real
Emotional rest is about having the space to express your authentic feelings instead of performing emotional labor constantly. It’s the freedom to say “I’m struggling” without immediately having to reassure everyone that you’re fine.
What it looks like in libraries: Maintaining a pleasant demeanor with difficult patrons. Absorbing community distress, about book challenges, about access to resources, about homelessness, about technology barriers. Managing up when you disagree with administrative decisions. Suppressing frustration when policies don’t serve patrons’ needs or when local, state, or national politics interfere with intellectual freedom or other professional values and ethics. Performing “niceness” even when you’re dealing with harassment or unreasonable demands. All of these involve emotional labor and often invisible labor.
What helps: Having people you can be honest with about how you’re really feeling. Setting boundaries with emotionally draining situations. Processing difficult interactions instead of stuffing them down.
The institutional piece: This is huge. Libraries need to move beyond the veneer of niceness that makes it impossible to address real problems. They need psychological safety, environments where staff can voice concerns without fear of being labeled “negative” or “not a team player.” They need clear protocols for handling abusive patron behavior instead of expecting staff to just absorb it. They need to acknowledge that emotional labor is real work and stop treating it as an expected personality trait, especially for women and people of color. It is important to ensure staff have downtime away from patrons and coworkers in a private space to allow staff to process emotions without masking. Make sure tasks that involve emotional labor are not piled on to one person or a small group. Look at policies and practices to help distribute invisible labor equally.
The personal piece: This is the type of rest many of us struggle with most, especially those of us who are “fixers”; we see problems and want to solve them, or we see something that needs to be done and we do it. But that means we often don’t give ourselves space to feel frustrated or sad or angry about workplace challenges. You don’t have to immediately move to problem-solving mode. Sometimes things just suck, and you need to acknowledge that before you can move forward. Be selective about who you process difficult situations with; some people help you feel heard, while others inadvertently make you feel like you need to manage their reactions to your feelings.
5. Social Rest: Recharging Your Social Battery
Social rest isn’t about being anti-social; it’s about balancing draining social interactions with restorative ones. It’s the difference between being “on” all the time and having a real connection.
What it looks like in libraries: Being in public-facing roles all day. Attending committee meetings. Making small talk at community events. Navigating workplace relationships and politics. Dealing with interpersonal conflicts. For introverts, neurodiverse people, and people in minority groups, even positive social interactions can be depleting without adequate recovery time.
What helps: Time alone to recharge. Saying no to optional social events when you need to. Spending time with people who energize rather than drain you. Having control over when and how you engage socially.
The institutional piece: Stop making attendance at social events outside of work hours feel mandatory. Respect that different people have different social needs. There are many reasons people may not work to socialize outside of work, that does not mean they are antisocial or unfriendly. They just need different conditions to thrive. And it might mean they have healthier boundaries. Reduce the number of meetings that could be emails. Create roles that balance public interaction with behind-the-scenes work. And please, stop using “culture fit” as code for “people who want to hang out together outside of work.” This leads to favoritism and bias.
The personal piece: Librarians work in a profession that requires significant social engagement. For years, you might have thought something was wrong with you because you felt exhausted after days that other people found energizing. Understanding that social rest is a real need can be liberating. It doesn’t matter if you’re an introvert or extrovert, neurodiverse or neurotypical. Be honest about your capacity. Don’t attend every optional event. Build in alone time after intense social periods. And stop feeling guilty about it, this isn’t antisocial behavior; it’s self-awareness about what you need to show up as your best self.
6. Creative Rest: Replenishing Your Capacity for Innovation
Creative rest is about appreciating beauty and inspiration without the pressure to produce something. It’s what we need when we’re experiencing creative fatigue, when every brainstorming session feels like pulling teeth, when we can’t think of one more way to make storytime engaging.
What it looks like in libraries: Constantly developing new programs. Creating displays. Solving problems with limited resources. Being expected to “innovate” without the time, space, or resources to actually be creative. Sitting through another meeting where you’re asked to “think outside the box” while still operating inside very rigid constraints.
What helps: Engaging with art, music, or nature without having to do anything with it. Reading for pleasure instead of professional development. Visiting museums. Taking a walk and actually looking at things. Giving yourself permission to consume creativity instead of always producing it.
The institutional piece: Libraries need to stop treating creativity as something you can turn on and off like a faucet. Innovation requires space, literal time, and mental bandwidth to explore ideas without immediate pressure to implement them. Professional development budgets shouldn’t just cover conferences; they should cover museum memberships, art supplies, and subscriptions to creative magazines. And please, stop asking staff to be creative while simultaneously micromanaging every detail of their work.
The personal piece: Some library roles feel like they require constant creativity and problem-solving, and there are times when you’ll feel completely tapped out. What helps is separating consumption from production. Read fiction without thinking about programming ideas. Visit art museums without photographing everything for social media. Cook without documenting it. You need to fill the creative well before you can draw from it, and that means sometimes just appreciating beauty or creativity without turning it into work. Be present in what you’re doing.
7. Spiritual Rest: Connecting to Something Bigger
Spiritual rest, whether through religion, meditation, purpose, or community, is about feeling connected to something beyond yourself. It’s not necessarily religious; it’s about meaning and belonging.
What it looks like in libraries: Experiencing a disconnect between your values and institutional policies. Being asked to enforce rules you don’t believe serve your community. Feeling like your work doesn’t matter or isn’t valued. Losing sight of why you became a librarian in the first place, because you’re drowning in bureaucracy or fighting book challenges.
What helps: Connecting with your library’s mission in tangible ways. Volunteering for causes you care about. Meditation or prayer if that’s meaningful to you. Spending time in communities where you feel you belong. Reconnecting with the “why” of your work.
The institutional piece: This is where value alignment becomes critical. When libraries require staff to enforce policies that contradict core professional values and ethics, whether around intellectual freedom, privacy, or equitable access, they create spiritual distress. When librarians are forced to compromise their beliefs about serving their community, when good work goes unrecognized, when mission statements ring hollow because actions don’t match words, that’s a recipe for moral injury, not just burnout.
The personal piece: Spiritual rest can come from connecting with why you do this work in the first place. When you’re feeling burned out or cynical, create opportunities to reconnect with libraries’ impact on people’s lives, read thank-you notes from patrons, talk with colleagues about meaningful interactions they’ve had, or volunteer in ways that remind you of the difference this profession makes. Find spiritual rest in nature, in faith or spiritual communities if that’s meaningful to you, or in groups where you can show up as your whole self, not just the professional version. Those connections remind you that you’re part of something bigger than any single frustration or challenge.
Moving Beyond Individual Self-Care
Here’s what I want you to take away from this: if you’re experiencing exhaustion despite taking care of yourself physically, you’re not failing at self-care. You are probably neglecting one or more of the other types of rest, and often because your workplace makes it nearly impossible to get them.
I’ve attended too many conference sessions and workshops or seen online courses that tell library workers how to individually prevent burnout through better self-care. But burnout isn’t an individual problem; it’s an organizational one. All seven types of rest require not just personal choices but institutional support.
So yes, look at where you might be neglecting certain types of rest. Build time for mental quiet, emotional authenticity, social recharging, creative play, and spiritual connection. But also? Advocate for workplaces that make rest possible. Push back on policies and cultures that deplete you faster than you can recover.
Because the truth is, we can’t yoga and meditate our way out of systemic workplace problems. Real rest requires real change, at the organizational level, not just the individual one.
#7TypesOfRest #burnout #health #healthyWorkplace #mentalHealth #psychologicalSafety #selfCare #sevenTypesOfRest #wellness #workplaceWellbeing
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AI is changing workplace mental health! Learn how to Prediksi NPD Karyawan and build better teams. Get the research scoop! #AI #MentalHealth #HR #WorkplaceWellbeing
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I’ve taken on some employment recently. The last job I had radicalised me against corporate bullshit. This job is particularly tricky as there isnt much to do. I spend most of my time trying to look busy, as my whole team are high level corpo's who dont realise how unproductive we all are.
To my fellow quiet quitters, anti-corp fighters and disillusioned corporate drones - what do you do to pass the time?
#anticorp #corporation #bullshitjobs #WorkplaceWellbeing #distopia
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Ever noticed your energy dip mid-afternoon?
You're not alone – studies show micro-breaks of under 10 minutes can boost mood and reduce fatigue, especially when you choose them yourself.
Over time, these tiny pauses add up: individuals in workplaces with structured micro-breaks have stronger wellbeing, fewer aches, and more energy.
Don't wait for burnout to act – schedule a few micro-breaks today.
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A new study links workplace AI adoption to increased employee depression 😔, partly due to reduced psychological safety 🛡️.
Read Full Article
#WorkplaceAI #EmployeeMentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #AIImpact #WorkplaceWellbeing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05040-2
Reenviado desde Science News
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AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agency
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Workplace #Productivity #AIEthics #CriticalThinking #Creativity #Leadership #TechCulture #AIImpact #HumanAI #Innovation #WorkplaceWellbeing
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Organisations in 2025 are embedding #brainhealth as a business priority, not a perk.
Organisations that treat brain health as fundamental infrastructure gain measurable benefits in employee engagement, retention, and creativity.
The result? Greater satisfaction and resilience.
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🧠 Empowering leadership doesn’t just feel good — it shields against burnout. But only if context supports it.
A new 2025 study published in BMC Psychology dives deep into the relationship between leadership style and occupational burnout, and the findings are clear:
✅ Leaders who delegate authority, promote autonomy, and involve employees in decisions boost psychological empowerment
🧱 Empowerment = stronger resilience, lower emotional exhaustion
⚠️ BUT — the effect weakens under high job demands or poor organizational support
🔄 It’s not “empower and walk away” — it’s “empower and support”The study’s moderated mediation model reveals how complex the leadership-burnout connection really is — and why generic leadership training misses the mark.
This is the roadmap for building burnout-resistant teams: smarter leadership, real autonomy, and tailored support aligned to the environment.
#Leadership #Burnout #WorkplaceWellbeing #EmployeeExperience #OrgPsych #Empowerment
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In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
https://wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-stress-job-relationships/
#HackerNews #highstresswork #relationships #mentalhealth #workplacewellbeing #prioritizeteamwork
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Tiny sparks of joy fuel a big impact. What small moment brightened your day? #JoyInSmallThings #MindfulMoments #PositiveCulture #EmployeeEngagement #Leadership #WorkplaceWellbeing #Happiness #Optimism #CultureShift
https://medium.com/@mohindroo.sanjay66/the-small-happy-moments-add-up-a-little-bit-of-joy-goes-a-long-way-melissa-mccarthy-ef62c2b23cc6 -
Today I wrote about the great AI content paradox: as AI tools make production faster, client expectations accelerate even more rapidly. 🧵 #ContentDesign #AIWriting #FreelanceLife #WorkplaceWellbeing #DigitalTransformation #AI #Technology
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Now Released: Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Digital Preservation Community 🫶🏽
This survey explores workplace wellbeing among digital preservation practitioners, highlighting:
• Effects of solitary work environments
• Impact of high workload demands
• Challenges of advocacy workMore info on https://www.dpconline.org/news/mental-health-and-wellbeing-report-launch Straight to the report? Follow this link https://doi.org/10.7207/mhw2025
#DigitalPreservation #MentalHealth #WorkplaceWellbeing #digipres #community
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🏢 Can Religious Organizations Help Workplace Mobbing Victims?
Why do both religious and non-religious victims of workplace mobbing seek spiritual assistance? Our study found that key factors include shared values, connection with the helper, and assistance context—not just personal faith.
@jolita_vveinhardt
#WorkplaceMobbing #SpiritualSupport #FaithAndHealing #WorkplaceWellbeing #Research
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🌿 Why Do Workplace Victims Turn to Religious Organizations for Help?
Violence and toxic relationships at work can leave deep scars. But what drives individuals to seek spiritual assistance in religious organizations? Is it just personal faith, or are there deeper motives at play?
@Mykolas_Deikus
#WorkplaceWellbeing #SpiritualSupport #ReligiousCommunities #ToxicWorkplace #MentalHealth
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Creating a Sustainable Work Environment: Why Mental Health Matters: In recent years, mental health has emerged as a critical aspect of workplace well-being. As industries evolve and the nature of work…
Continue reading on Medium » https://medium.com/@thynq.care/creating-a-sustainable-work-environment-why-mental-health-matters-dac43be5d92b?source=rss------mentalhealth-5&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MentalHealth #WorkplaceWellbeing #Sustainability #EmployeeWellness #WorkLifeBalance