Mumbai: So, May was mental health awareness month. Not surprisingly, along with everything else, Covid-19 has taken a toll on our anxiety and stress levels too. As the pandemic’s second wave sweeps across the country, it is inducing a considerable degree of fear, distress, and alarm in the population at large, and especially among the working professionals.
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According to the World Health Organisation, 56 million Indians suffer from depression and another 38 million Indians suffer from anxiety disorders. Furthermore, a survey conducted by Gi Group a Noida-based human capital solutions and services provider has revealed that 78 per cent employers believe workplaces influence mental health and 21 per cent think that workplaces have the potential to cause mental health issues.
But employers and employees contradict each other on two main influencing factors. While 77 per cent of the employers believe that long, erratic work hours are the top factors that undermine the role of leadership, 79 per cent employees believe that leadership plays the topmost role in influencing their mental health. The survey titled All in the Mind: The State of Mental Health in Corporate India had a sample size of 1,088 employees and 368 employers from small, medium and large-scale companies based out of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyd
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MUMBAI: As the second wave of Covid2019 batters the Indian subcontinent, there is little doubt that we are staring at a humanitarian disaster of humongous proportions. Even as the country struggles to cope with what is possibly a deadly new variant of the Coronavirus, organisations are going out of their way to show solidarity with their workforce.
Recently, Reliance Industries announced that it has decided to give employees their entire bonus for 2020-21, acknowledging their commitment to the company in a challenging year. It also launched an inoculation drive for all its employees, their family members, and stakeholders from Friday.
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When the lockdown was announced in the first phase of COVID, companies managed to run operations smoothly resorting to Work From Home and other measures. However, the second wave, which has seen daily infections crossing 400,000, is putting to test that arrangement too.