SINGAPORE — As the pandemic situation improved last year and Covid-19 restrictions started to ease, secondary school teacher Melvin expected his workload to ease as he would no longer be tasked to manage home-based learning that was put in place during the crisis.
However, the 29-year-old, who wanted to go by a pseudonym because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said that this was far from the truth.
Due to the added workload from adopting digital learning in the classrooms and organising school activities, Melvin said that his job became more stressful and he lost sleep over it. With the pandemic and its multifold restrictions being put behind the general population, it might not be too far-fetched to assume that work life could become less stressful as “normal life” resumes.In Singapore, more than half of the workers surveyed in a study said that they felt more sensitive to stress in 2022 compared to 2021.The study by
Ms Anthea Ong, founder of the WorkWell Leaders Workgroup, said: “The pandemic may be over but companies are facing mounting challenges of inflationary pressures, geopolitical tensions and business disruptions.” Each country was given a “mental health index score” out of 100 points, with a score up to 49 meaning the population is in distress, a score between 50 and 79 meaning it is strained, and a score above 80 being “optimal".
Career counsellors and mental health advocates said it came as no surprise that people, especially the youth, were feeling increased stress even as the pandemic situation got better. “With hybrid work arrangements being in place in many businesses, workers feel insecure when they are not ‘seen’ working in the office… This creates a need to work harder to compensate for the days not spent in the office,” he said.
It came to a point where she “couldn’t take it anymore”. So she quit her job earlier this year, as it was a preferable option to telling her superiors about her struggles. Training managers to better identity mental health conditions among employees, and kickstarting employee assistance programmes such as counselling
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