Mental health and well-being of employees as a strategic HR priority

Now with the rise of AI and a fast-moving and growing business environment, most of the time employees mental health problems stay invisible until they cause issues for the operations. According to Ramesh (2023) these burnouts not only cause damage to the individuals but also gradually disrupt the company's operations overtime. Ramesh (2023) has studied the direct impact on operations from anxiety, depression, and other untreated mental health issues causing problems for the organizations. These unhappy employees most of the time stop engaging with the growth plans of the organizations, make errors, and become less and less efficient with day-to-day operations. This creates a ripple as they might affect people around them with the same amount of negativity, less team engagement, create conflicts in the company culture, and create a negative word of mouth about the organization in the society. Not only will this be a reduction in productive man-hours, but in a hybrid environment, it...

  Image credit- https://www.freepik.com/ After Covid, hybrid working culture became more and more popular. This is a mixture of working from home to office and remote working setups as well. This flexible work practice has many advantages to the employees. Reduction of personal costs, such as travel, and time savings have improved work-life balance to some extent. However, even this kind of method has its own challenges when it comes to mental health. Main challenges can be taken as isolation when digitally monitoring every move of employees, leading them to digital fatigue; loneliness due to lack of human contact can be taken as some of those (Choudhury, Foroughi & Larson, 2021). Time and cultural differences across the globe also fuel these factors as well. One of the major negative factors can be taken as techno-stress : this means mental drain due to continual digital connectivity. Wang et al. (2021) has found that repeated message notifications, audio and video calls,...

Image credit- https://www.freepik.com/ In the current society the psychological well-being of employees is becoming an important topic than it used to be. Globally organization is understanding more and more about the importance of maintaining employee's physical and mental health and how it may affect their businesses. Rather than offering a financial benefits to employees + basic facilities as abide by the low- current trends go beyond that. Now main focus is to create a work place where the workers thrive not only physically but mentally which leads to the improvement of their professional environment. The healthy level will play a vital role in employee engagement, work relationships, how they perform and how affectionate they feel towards the organization.  Organizations that provide high standards to the employees, where they take care of employee physical and mental well-being, gain higher loyalty from their employees. Business has to do this not because it is becoming ...