Calm Your Nerves, Watch Your Health

What is ailing workplaces? Factors like lost productivity, escalating absenteeism, and indirect expenses give birth to a negative work environment, which impacts business and leads to mental health problems.

- Samprikta Sinha

Mental health is a serious issue which often goes overlooked, regarded either as a taboo or as something insignificant. However, if not treated, they may lead to higher psychological risk factors.

With a truckload of work pressure, incessant working hours, and stiff deadlines, mental health problems are increasing at an exponential rate. In most cases, such problems arise due to harassment at workplaces, imprecise job assignments, employee inefficiency, poor communication and management, fewer resources and so on. Often kept under the veil of physical ailments, mental sicknesses can turn out to be threatening not only for the concerned person but for others as well. A mentally disturbed employee becomes a victim of his own illness. To escape reality, he often ends up resorting to a perpetual state of inebriation. His actions begin to have negative effects both in his workplace and at home. He does not get contentment from work and loses out on family time.