If you are facing problem of disliking your workplace, thought of going at work disturbs your mood. You face upset stomach, headache, and anxiety at work without any disorder in eating habits. Then you are for sure a victim of work place burnout. Workplace burnout is one of the most common corporate diseases and if not handled carefully it may lead to some serious consequences.
Courtesy to alive family units and joint family systems in Pakistan many people avoid side effects of workplace burnout but not all are so lucky. Instances are on the rise where people getting strokes, heart attacks, ulcers and paralysis attacks due to tough routines or failing to counter work place pressures.
Workplace burnout once identified can easily be managed by taking some simple steps and sometimes change in work place location helps the cause. Human centric organizations try not to let it happen as workplace burnout lead to losing good resource and ultimately revenues the basic existence of business.
Now the question arises how we can avoid it once identified. There are some things that can help reducing it by line management, HR and peers. However, again not all are lucky to have such line management, HR or peers. So whether you have this liberty to have someone thinking for you or not, actual onus falls on YOU. Only YOU can do things differently for you. Try these 10 simple things and you will feel a lot better:
1. Try to create some moments of enjoyment in your work every day, a funny mail, a joke, an unusual thing, a cup of tea with team, forcing your team to have a 5 minutes sudden break for a joke you can name it Joke Break J
2. Go for a dinner/lunch or even for tea with friends/team. Don’t wait for any of your friends to make this plan, there is no harm in initiating a plan.
3. Exercise, Play a game or try to go for a walk every now and then, it’s relaxing not only physically but mentally impacts very positively.
4. Spend time with children and old people. Try to enjoy the innocence and experiences.
5. Try to find new ways of doing same tasks to avoid boredom or monotony.
6. Try to read books and something relevant to your field every now and then. Also try to figure out how people are doing same things in other parts of the world.
7. Look to wish people around you on their big days and try to surprise them and feel the enjoyment.
8. Try to have interesting competitions at work like who can do a certain task in least time and have some funny celebrations for winners and don’t try to win all the times if you are the best in that particular skill J
9. Try to pre-empt busy days and divide work in advance.
10. Plan your day-offs (leaves) every 6 months and ensure that you have no access to mails, office tasks and matters in your day offs. If possible go to some hill station or at place where you feel comfortable to do something refreshing or exciting. Watch movies, play with children, read some good things or do some community-work.
The list can go long or can contract for some but at least these can change your work style and make you a happy person at work and you will start enjoying work and will add value not only to your organization but to your own life.
