The constant stress to keep the business infrastructure afloat is taking a toll on the mental health of IT teams. Hence, enterprise leaders need to develop initiatives to manage the mental health of their company’s infra backbone.
The constant uncertainty in today’s enterprise landscape is having a negative impact on the workforce. Especially the IT teams whose job roles have become diversified and responsibilities are piling up every other day.
The IT teams, who already had work-life balance issues before the pandemic, are witnessing more intense misbalance now, with challenges around every aspect of operations.
As most of the IT workers are extending their shift to keep enterprises business intact, their stress is only soaring. They are struggling to strike the right balance between managing their work and working from home when they have to deal with constant disruptions.
Also, the staff who are used to working in an agile, close-knit environment also feel isolated by the loss of their colleagues. The stress of working in a remote environment while simultaneously dealing with the pandemic and other stress factors is bad for their physical as well as mental health. And the bad health of an employee can negatively impact a business’s productivity and performance.
Therefore, it is up to enterprise leaders to take the required steps that will help to smoothen the business process in these highly challenging times. Below are a few initiatives enterprise leaders must follow to take care of the health of the IT teams:
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Sharing challenges and limitations
Often employees shy away from opening themselves to their leaders. They don’t want to be the only person on the team who is struggling to deal with the issue. However, if IT leaders also shared their own experiences with the stigma related to mental health issues, they can effectively deal with it.
Once employees realize that their leaders are also in the same boat as them, they can comfortably share their own experiences.
Promoting resources
To deal with the circumstances, IT employees want their employers to help them with information related to managing their mental health support and service. Hence, enterprise leaders should carefully listen to their employees and offer them details about the available mental health services, how much they are worth, and what digital solutions can support their mental health.
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Reducing the Virtual Meetings
Since the world has been forced to adopt the remote working model, businesses have started taking virtual meetings to constantly update their teams and deal with the issues and challenges.
But, the number of meetings has surged and most IT employees are spending more time in the meetings than doing any actual work. The network is almost always an issue, wasting productive time, and deadlines loom large over whatever little work time is finally achieved. All this adds to stress, so limiting calls and virtual interactions could save some time for actual work.
In this scenario, IT teams work extended hours, which can have a negative impact on their productivity. Thus, IT leaders should reduce the number of meetings their employees need to go through so that they can spend valuable time doing the things that matter to them.
