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To promote knowledge about workplace stress, how it affects employees and businesses, as well as what you can do about it, we semi-regularly publish articles on various platforms. However, to make it easier for you to find them all, we collate them here.

With OHM there are only winners

Originally Published on November 6, 2022.

In October 2022 I was interviewed on the topic of Occupational Health Management for the magazine "Lachner" published by the Crafts and Trades Association in Lachen-Altendorf, Switzerland. This is an English translation of that article.

The Road to Burnout is Long

Originally Published on March 29, 2022.

In 2012, I was put on sick leave due to a burnout. The road to recovery was long and difficult, and my progress was slow. This is the story of how it was for me. I will also tell you something about what the research shows and what can be done in an organisation to help prevent burnout...

Organisational effects of sleep

Originally Published on December 1, 2021.

Most adults need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night in order to be fully functional. In fact, only about 1.5% of people have a genetic mutation which makes them need less than 7 hours of sleep. [...] research has shown that our cognitive abilities, such as reaction time; memory; and communication skills, start to decline after 10 hours of wakefulness and after 17 hours of wakefulness they are as impaired as if people were legally drunk...

Original image was originally posted on Flickr by hang_in_there. Image published under Creative Commons licence.

Procrastination is both a cause of stressful situations and a symptom of stress

Originally Published on LinkedIn on October 23, 2020.

Procrastination is both a cause of stressful situations and a symptom of #stress: If you keep putting things off you are likely to get stressed, as you get more and behind on your duties. If you are feeling bad because you are stressed, you might do something more fun than your tasks, and thereby procrastinate, in order not to have to deal with the situation...

The Costly Pitfalls of Workplace Stress and Presenteeism

Published on August 5, 2020.

Bill is a manager of a department of 50 people in a SME. For the last few months a project involving most of his department has been quite busy, forcing many employees to work overtime a few days a week. Bill knows that many of the employees in the department have therefore started their workdays earlier than normal, taken care of their kids in the early evening and then worked a few more hours after having put the kids to bed...

See Challenges, not Problems

Originally Published on LinkedIn on April 20, 2020.

I am currently digging into the topic of employee and team resilience for a client. Resilience is a trait that will benefit you as it helps you manage an ever changing and often uncertain, complex, and ambiguous work environment...

Shouldn’t every individual focus on improving how they relate to pressure overall and not just at work?

Originally Published on LinkedIn on March 3, 2020.

Recently I published a short article titled “5 short things everyone should know about Burnout” and got two questions in return that I am answering in one article each. Last week I answered the question “Do we tend to blame stress on the workplace regardless of what is going on in our private lives?”. If you haven’t read that article yet I highly recommend that you do so, as it is closely connected to this one...

Do we tend to blame stress on the workplace regardless of what is going on in our private lives?

Originally Published on LinkedIn on February 24, 2020.

Recently I published a short article titled “5 short things everyone should know about Burnout” and got two questions in return that I am going to answer in one article each. Question One: Do we tend to blame stress on the workplace regardless of what is going on in our private lives?...

5 short things everyone should know about Burnout

Originally Published on LinkedIn on February 12, 2020.

is not a medical condition,..

A robot from a Terminator movie in front of a wall of fire

Original image was originally posted on Flickr by Al Lemos. Image published under Creative Commons license. Background has been adapted.

Mindfulness is not a terminator of stress

Originally Published on LinkedIn on January 4, 2020.

On more than one occasion during my work life I have been under pressure and in a stressful situation. Being a self-sufficient and independent person, I never want to burden my colleagues with my shortcomings, as I would see it, regardless of the reason for the pressure.[...]However, don’t make the mistake of viewing it as a method that has been proven to be efficient in warding off, or reducing, workplace stress. Mindfulness is not a terminator of workplace stress, not even a baby terminator...

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