The Mental Health Memo: Finding Headspace in the Workplace

10/14/21 • 21 min

On the latest edition of Thoughtcast by Onething, Sonakshi has a chat with Karthik Hariharan, a counselling psychologist to discuss mental health implications of the modern-day workplace. They chat about mental health awareness, and social media misinformation. Furthermore, a large portion of the discussion speaks specifically to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how the work-from-home culture change augmented our schedules for the worse.
The podcast also suggests tactics and strategies which individuals can employ in their daily lives, with relative ease, to reduce the burden of burnout and lead mentally healthier lifestyles. We also get into what companies can do for their employees in the same regard, and some real world examples which have worked wonders.
Catch real world mental health insights, from a professional, on this episode of Thoughtcast by Onething.

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Thoughtcast - The Mental Health Memo: Finding Headspace in the Workplace

Transcript

[00:00:00] Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Thoughtcast by Onething. Here we have Karthik with us who is a counseling psychologist, and works with working professionals and kids to help deal with their mental health problems. Today, we will be talking about mental health in the workforce and I feel that's a very important topic or to be touched, especially due to COVID and people having to work in a different manner or change their patterns of working from offline to online.

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