There is no better time than the start of the year to make changes to your life, so, with this in mind, Prospect has launched a new online resource to help its members achieve a better work-life balance.
The union points to reports that highlight the potentially devastating impact that a long-hours culture can have on the health, productivity and safety of workers –whether because of organisational change, or increasing workloads.
Called WorkTime YourTime, the Web resource contains a wide range of information, from suggestions on simple behavioural changes to tips on how to regain a sense of control; and from advice on a range of flexible-working arrangements to other measures to break the long-hours culture, or guidance on how to balance caring responsibilities with work.
The campaign’s home page features a link to an ‘hours check’ calculator, which allows employees to work out how their unpaid overtime translates into hours, or even days, worked for free. There is also a spreadsheet that can act as a useful tool to track and tally unpaid hours to support a case when trying to reclaim the time.
The Worktime Yourtime resource can be found at: www.prospect.org.uk/campaigns_and_events/national_campaigns/index?_ts=12977
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
