Post-pandemic, our personal lives are a mess. Colleagues bear the brunt as we struggle to keep up appearances
The mutual support is of immense value. It is probably keeping us healthy for longer: an Australian study of women aged between 45 and 70 released this year found that those with friends at work and good relationships with colleagues were much less likely to develop a range of common diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure and even cancer.After the difficulties prompted by the Covid emergency, these friendships, both recent and long-term, feel particularly nourishing.
As for the managers, they are pulled in two directions by sympathy and the need to deliver – the show must go on and the work has to come first. Not for nothing does the traditional training include a section on how to comfort an underling, pass them a tissue as they blub, then move the conversation on.
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