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Please note that while these articles are not officially endorsed by the NWS, they are intended to provide NWS employees with outside expertise on various wellness topics

The Mental Health Benefits of Remote and Flexible WorkFlexible work options, in particular, have a lot to offer in supporting mental health at work and in life.

How To Keep Your Mental Health in Check When You Work From Home

Take steps to improve your mental health when you work from home and you’ll shrug off the anxiety, depression, and loneliness many remote workers face.

Mental Health Strategies for Remote Workers During COVID-19With fewer connections to the outside world during COVID-19, mental health suffers. Find out how to cope with the added stress and anxiety.

Managing mental health during COVID-19AMA provides strategies and resources for physicians to manage their mental well-being while also caring for patients during the pandemic or any other crisis.

Council Post: 3 Unique Ways To Support Mental Health In The WorkplaceBy implementing even one of these strategies, you can help make your employees feel more supported and engaged, and ready to face each day.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental HealthIf you or someone you care about feel overwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression or anxiety, or like you want to harm yourself or others call 911. You can also contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA)

4 better ways to think about wellness at workWithout mentally healthy people, your business will not thrive.

Do You Know Burnout When You See It?While burnout isn’t a new problem, the ongoing crises of 2020 made it worse, and it’s following us into 2021. Burnout can take many forms, and the wellness surveys many companies use to identify it overlook the more active forms, such as erosive behaviors, impatience, and incivility. Managers need to understand the subtle warning signs of burnout so they can take steps to mitigate it before it’s too late. Once identified, managers can get creative about how to relieve some of the pressure on their burned-out employees and work collaboratively with them to understand what they need.

The Pandemic Has People Stuck in a Bad Mental/Physical LoopParticipants talked about how caregiving, exhaustion, and mental health stressors kept them from being active, perpetuating the cycle.

What Covid-19 Has Done to Our Well-Being, in 12 ChartsHow has Covid-19 and the related shift to WFH affected workers? A group of researchers surveyed HBR readers and others in the fall of 2020 and found that the vast majority reported declines in both general and workplace well-being. The biggest culprits? Mental health struggles, increased job demands, and home-life challenges. A much smaller percentage reported an increase in well-being, attributing it to reduced commutes and business travel and having more time to focus on health.

Bring the Outdoors into Your Hybrid Work RoutineThe pandemic has contributed to work-related stress, but it has also prompted employers to explore non-traditional ways of structuring work and managing employees. One benefit employers and employees may have overlooked is how remote and hybrid work can help them take advantage of the restorative and motivational power of nature. A growing body of research reveals that spending time in nature has many benefits for mental and physical health. The author presents three ways for managers to take advantage of hybrid and remote work to help their employees better access and benefit from nature.

How to turn everyday stress into ‘optimal stress’Managed well, stress can be an ally rather than an enemy. Here’s how to use it to your advantage.

It’s not that you don’t care. It’s that you’re mentally exhaustedFour signs you’re mentally exhausted—and what to do about it.

Employee Wellbeing Starts at WorkAs employee burnout and negative emotions reach record levels, employers are looking for solutions. Can less work decrease workplace stress?

Do You Know Burnout When You See It?While burnout isn’t a new problem, the ongoing crises of 2020 made it worse, and it’s following us into 2021. Burnout can take many forms, and the wellness surveys many companies use to identify it overlook the more active forms, such as erosive behaviors, impatience, and incivility. Managers need to understand the subtle warning signs of burnout so they can take steps to mitigate it before it’s too late. Once identified, managers can get creative about how to relieve some of the pressure on their burned-out employees and work collaboratively with them to understand what they need.

Talking About Mental Health with Your Employees — Without OversteppingLike many managers, you probably checked in with your employees throughout last spring when the Covid-19 crisis first started. But you need to keep doing it. As the pandemic drags on, there is a rising number of people who are struggling with mental health issues. As a manager, you don’t want to overstep, but you can — and should — open up a conversation with your employees about how they are doing. The author has several suggestions for how to do that, including, talking about health holistically, avoiding making your employees feel like they are “broken,” and actively listening. Of course, it’s not your job to be your employees’ therapist, but it is your role to create an open, inclusive, and safe environment that allows them to bring their whole selves to work.

When Passion Leads to BurnoutWhen we equate work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of it — all of the time, actually. But this mentality leads to burnout, and the impact on our mental health can be profound. Recently, the concept of burnout was legitimized when The World Health Organization (WHO) included it in its International Classification of Diseases, which should increase the number of healthcare providers and insurers who acknowledge, treat, and cover the symptoms. Mission-driven executives, non-profit employees, teachers/principals, nurses, and physicians are some of the people most at-risk for burnout. So, what can leaders do to prevent it in their own organizations? Teach people that setting healthy boundaries is OK. It’s not selfish. It’s actually selfless. It allows you to be more effective at what you do, and to better help those you wish to help.

Rethinking health priorities: A conversation with Vivek MurthyFormer US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discusses loneliness and social isolation, better healthcare and the role of technology in a COVID-19 era.

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