The holiday season is fast approaching. This should be an exciting time full of joy, love, and togetherness, but it may be a stressful time of year for you and your employees. Balancing deadlines, job responsibilities, family obligations, and finances can create holiday stress at work, which can affect employee productivity. Thankfully, there are things you and your employees can do at work to alleviate and manage holiday stress.
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How to Manage Holiday Stress
1. Be Aware of Your Employees by Holding Meetings
Don’t ignore stress. Hold one-on-one or group meetings with employees to discuss specific issues. You can also hold health seminars within the workplace. This is a way employees and employers can share information and discuss concerns related to mental and personal health. This can include stress, anxiety, and the best ways to deal with them. It’s an opportunity to stay up to date with your health and your employees’ health.
2. Encourage Taking Breaks
Everyone is human and taking breaks every once in a while can help manage the holiday stress. Shaping the company culture can make a huge difference. You can do this by taking breaks yourself: if employees notice that you can take breaks, they may feel more comfortable doing so too. With so much demand during the holiday season, this gives you and your employees the opportunity to recharge physically and mentally.
3. Focus on Work-Life Balance
Everyone needs to focus on themselves occasionally; this also goes for you as the business leader or HR leader, too! Especially during the holiday season, creating a work-life balance is essential. The holiday season can get busy, but it’s a time to celebrate with family and exchange gifts, so an overflowing workload is stressful. By setting boundaries between work time and personal time, you can have a healthy balance. Setting mandated hours can also help.
Try to schedule at least one hour a day to focus on yourself and encourage the same for your employees. Use this time to read a book, watch a movie, meditate, exercise, or simply do the things you enjoy.
Though the holiday is supposed to be a joyous season, work responsibilities and overworking can make it difficult to enjoy. As an HR leader or business leader, you can take these steps and encourage your employees to take these steps to relieve the holiday stress.
