Silent acquiescence, which mainly affects young people, also rises by 60% after the pandemic
Just as the Spanish economy has not yet recovered from the ravages of the pandemic, so has the mental health of workers, who continue to suffer the effects of the difficult times they have endured. It is therefore not surprising that 65% of companies, two out of three, confirm that the risk of suffering from ‘burned worker’ syndrome has increased over the past year; and significantly more than 6 percentage points, according to a recently published report by the Adecco Group. It is a work stress that becomes chronic over time and causes a state of exhaustion, both physical and mental.
For example, 12% of companies acknowledge that more than half of their employees have suffered from mental health disorders (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress), which is an increase of 2 percentage points compared to the previous year. The economic crisis and other external factors have had a greater influence on the emergence of this stress than the working conditions themselves, according to the survey conducted among 43,000 representative companies of the Spanish business community.
This phenomenon is linked to another phenomenon that has increased by 60%: quiet resignation, which consists of not taking the work too seriously and sticking to the schedule and what is strictly required, something that affects young people more than seniors . The reasons for this increase in ‘quitting quietly’ are related to the failure to meet employee expectations (working conditions, wages, etc.). Similarly, more than half of companies believe that silent layoffs are not closely related to the post-pandemic mental health crisis, while 32% believe that they are to some extent.
In any case, Javier Blasco, director of The Adecco Group Institute, warns that 32% of Spanish employees confirm that their mental health has deteriorated in the past year. In addition, in groups of particular psychosocial and pandemic complexity, such as the health sector, 38.5% of workers are affected by the symptoms of ‘burnout’. “Mental health should be part of the purpose and vision of all organizations and more global and ambitious frameworks should be promoted in occupational mental health and psychosocial risk management,” says Blasco, who emphasizes in which the “mental well-being of our employees depends depends on the productivity, innovation potential and capacity for resilience and sustainability of companies”.
Source: La Verdad
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