It's mental wellbeing awareness week at work, and I've just sat through a 2 hour presentation that sounded awfully like it was penned by ChatGPT and delivered by someone who was so disinterested in the subject matter, that she kept losing her thread mid-speech.
Working for one of the largest employers in the city, I'm always aware that - at best - the employer's commitment to our mental wellbeing begins and ends with a box-ticking exercise like this once a year, before all the things that cause stress, upset and job dissatisfaction are never properly addressed.
Coincidentally, we also had a work-wide survey about our workloads. With the employer adopting scrum and agile approaches to project management, all we've seen is less governance (a major cause of stress in an environment where users really couldn't care less about data security or privacy) and tighter deadlines. Again, not really conducive to mental well being.
I've felt really stressed by work more than a handful of times over the last year, mostly caused by poor project management, angrier and more entitled 'customers' and a general rise in levels of selfishness and ignorance that also just seem to be getting worse and worse.
One thing I would have liked to hear this morning is that there are others going through the same thing. I'm aware that I'm hyper-sensitive about a lot of stuff, but also feel that the one thing the session truly lacked was actually allowing its participants to just vent or share their own experiences. So I couldn't really understand what the point of the session was at all.
Has anyone ever gone through a workplace mental wellbeing exercise that's been effective?
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