Items Tagged with 'employee wellness'

Personal protection against effects of hot weather and sun exposure.

While taking time to mourn the transition of her father, Lisa reflects on some of the lessons she learned from him and brings us wisdom for helping your business continue to thrive.

In today's fast-paced world, burnout has become an all-too-common affliction. We explore ways to affectively recognize and minimize burnout.

May is mental health awareness month! Our editor in chief Myldred Ingram shares a few tips on ways companies can check on the mental health of their employees and why this is important not only for this month, but year-round.

Disaster restoration estimators operate in an inherently stressful niche of the construction industry. 

This is the third and final article of a multi-part series on employee burnout in the restoration industry. 

This is the second article of a multi-part series on employee burnout in the restoration industry.  Part one introduced the nature of burnout, and summarized findings from a study on burnout in the restoration industry. 

Since the 1990s, experts have been declaring burnout levels are reaching epidemic proportions among North American workers (Maslach & Leiter, 1997). Since that time, most people would probably agree that work related stressors have only intensified with the proliferation of metrics, technology, and the need to be “on” all the time.

I’ve had the privilege of getting to know the restoration industry from a few different angles over the last year, wearing a few different hats. Each hat has given me some fresh perspective and understanding of the daily life of you all, restorers.