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Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost employee mental health
(www.newscientist.com)
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My workplace recently started doing a "Path to the Weekend" initiative. This is a mandatory meeting held at 5pm on a Friday for an hour about every month, where we have to have extroverted style discussions such as "tell us about 2 new things you accomplished in your personal life since the last meeting.".
It's hell.
The director of my department just announced a new initiative starting this year for something similar.
Once a month, we now have a two hour meeting where we need to prep and present a five slide PowerPoint to our peers. The slides are focused on project status, work accomplishments, personal development, a life update, and mandatory feedback given to one of our peers in front of the group.
So not only am I forced to share details of my private life to a bunch of people that I hate in a fucking PowerPoint, I have to single someone out with one thing they’re doing well and one thing they can improve.
Is there any explicit requirement that this presentation contain truth?
If you do this right you could build up an amazing false personal life.
Whoa that is so not ok
Single out the director and tell them they can improve by scrapping the meeting. Do this every month until they listen.
All of this is so generic as to be useless.
Or, it's so generic as to be applicable to any job.