• Replies 33 replies
  • Subscribers 20 subscribers
  • Views 22056 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related

How are you all doing?

Steve Bridger

The tweet below prompted me to ask this question. You are so busy. You may be feeling undervalued.  

It has been two years since Samantha asked this question, which generated a wonderfully open and supportive conversation days before the first lockdown.

 Are any other HR people feeling a bit lonely in all this :( 

So much has happened since then and while in some ways the pandemic accelerated a pre-exisiting direction of travel with regards remote working and technology, so much was new - not least 'furlough', which we were all talking about here. But there have also been deep structural changes and challenges - for example, in recruitment and retention. Now many of you are considering how you can support employees through the cost-of-living crisis. 

Amid all this, we need to look after ourselves and support one another - our peers. 

So... how are you doing?

  _

Parents
  • Hey Steve!

    Must admit when I asked that question back in 2020 I did feel like I was being a bit self indulgent as I said in the OP but it was nice to see that I wasn't feeling alone.

    I'm feeling ok, a bit flat like Jacqueline says. Our business has actually done really well out of such a difficult time period but I just feel like I've lost my mojo a bit. We're recruiting constantly it feels, I have to switch very quickly from doing very low-level admin type work - which is fine I think we all need things like that sometimes - to within minutes looking at complex ER issues or research....then back to admin. I lose my focus a lot and it takes a while to get back into whatever task I was doing, and I'm finding it incredibly difficult to do that and just can't work out why. It's not the job I don't think, and it's definitely not the company. maybe its just a bit of a personal "eeeeek" period that I need to work through and come out of the other side.

    One thing I am struggling with is the sort of issues and queries that are being brought to me that we've never had before and are out of our control. Some of them are absolutely ridiculous and I do wonder if there's an element of neediness creeping in for some people? Its almost as if because they have had 2 years of being 'protected' from the big bad pandemic now things seem to be coming back to some form of normal they can't cope with self-managing their own issues? (I'm sure I can word that much better - hope you know what I mean!)
  • in reply to Samantha

    You're clearly not the only one who has lost their mojo a bit, Samantha... and you certainly hit home with your post a couple of years ago.

    We're here for each other in this Community Hugging

Reply Children
No Data