9 Mar 2022

Coping with COVID absences, measuring staff mental wellbeing

From Afternoons, 1:33 pm on 9 March 2022

New Zealand businesses, for the first time, are struggling with staffing levels thanks to the widespread Omicron outbreak.

Covid absences and isolation places a whole new stress on the workplace, and the employees who are left to manage while their colleagues are sick.

A new rating system has been developed to measure support for mental wellbeing so workplaces can develop more effective strategies, Matthew Steans explains the systems Stigma Statistics have developed.

Stressed worker (generic file picture).

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