What to do when multiple sick colleagues are crashing your work team

Persistent colds, coronavirus infections and sometimes just exhaustion: When many colleagues are absent at once, this often puts extra strain on the healthy team members – but the show must go on. “Many employees assume that their boss must notice this overload, but they are often far too stressed themselves,” says Anne Katrin Matyssek, a psychologist from Cologne. So the employees grit their teeth, wait for relief, and maybe feel a bit heroic as they step up to shoulder the burden. It’s an unhealthy strategy, warns Matyssek, who advises companies on the subject of health-oriented employee man…

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