We all work with someone like this. Not surprising, a lot of these people work in care homes 🧑‍⚕️👩‍⚕️

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Work friends are not the same as personal friends. You’re put in a гадюшник – a nest of vipers who believe they are jockeying for position, competing with you for money, and focused on making themselves look good by making others look bad as well as tattling to the boss.
If you think this issue will improve, I’m sad to say, I don’t think so.

https://medium.com/@sara_causey/the-office-operates-like-the-stasi-ba5b1e728f01

#workfriends #work #officeculture #spyculture #corporateamerica

Work friends are good and can help the days go better but doesnt necessarily mean they make the work get done better. Dont confuse the two.

You heard me Gallup 👀

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#MondayMourning: Workplace Grief

Do you spend more time with your coworkers than your own family? Sometimes we establish close bonds with our colleagues. At the very least, their mood and performance have a direct impact on our own. What happens when a coworker experiences a loss and throws the workplace into upheaval?

Here are a few things to consider.

- Don't judge the severity of a loss based on degree of kinship. As in, don't expect them to bounce back quickly because it was "just" a cousin or "just" a former spouse. You don't know how close they may have been or what responsibilities are now theirs.

- Family Leave and PTO are woefully insufficient for someone to handle the affairs AND recover from grief. Really, four days off is supposed to cut it? Grief experts recommend a MINIMUM of 20 days. Unfortunately some people are forced back to work way before they're ready, either because their time off is gone or their bills are piling up. They may have to pay out of pocket for funeral expenses or suddenly have their household income reduced by half.

- Adjust your expectations. Just because someone is physically present at work doesn't mean they're mentally present. Exhaustion, stress, the inability to focus, and a wide range of emotions will interfere with their performance. Obviously! They might hyper focus for a while to keep busy, only to break under the workload as their brain fog renders them useless. Coworkers should strive to understand that it isn't a personal failing, and that picking up the slack without resentment is the greatest kindness they can offer.

- Offer support while respecting privacy. Avoid empty offers ("if there's anything I can do, let me know") and empty platitudes ("I know how you feel... he's in a better place.") Instead of asking, "how are you doing?" ask "how is today?" Give them an opportunity to talk and just listen. Find out what they want you to say to others ("she had a loss in the family and will return calls next week.")

#HisAndHearsePress #Grief #Coworkers #Workplace #WorkplaceCulture #WorkFriends #WorkSpouse #FamilyLeave #WorkplaceGrief

Does anyone know of any good practices/patterns for larger social mixers for purely-online groups?

I'm thinking especially of maintaining and growing the bonds between folks across my work's campuses, that formed when we were all remote, and "campus" temporarily ceased to have meaning...

We do coffee chats but wondering if there's an online analogue for like "networking events" or similar

#facilitation #networking #WorkFriends
@hiredthought @Postobject ... who else might know?