Workplace Mental Health How is this lockdown different?

The current NSW lockdown is different than the last one. We asked Altius Group to help us understand how it is different from a mental health perspective.

Please see below for a transcript of this video.

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Transcript

0:00
Yeah, very interesting. Are you getting any insights, as well. And another another question I kind of got what is, Are you getting any insights around kind of this, this lockdown versus previous ones? whether there’s any been any differences or different themes, this time around versus, perhaps last time around? I mean, obviously New South Wales, this is a sort of second major one, I suppose you could say Victoria obviously has been, there’s been a lot more. But what sort of insights, if any, has there been in that regard? of the current situation versus previous sort of lockdown scenarios?

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Yeah, more anecdotally, because there is a lag in the data collection and our ability to report on that. In my role, as you know, Clint, I’m a bit of a go to point for people like yourself, and all of our clients coming, you know, inbound leads to the business, in their business development is what comes through to me. And certainly seeing a lot more inquiries coming through of people just wondering what to do with their employees, and how to help and what I’m saying what I’m receiving is calls from someone that owns a trucking company and saying, as a manager, they’ve just spent the last hour on their phone, where they’ve got their truck drivers, who the smallest thing is now just disrupted them. And they’ve just had a complete breakdown and meltdown about something. And those types of stories of just added stress on people and added issues where you know, day to day, they will probably be managing these types of things. But the straw breaking the camel’s back. And now managers and businesses reaching out to us for more and more support around to what do we do is what I’m starting to hear. And whether it’s the financial pressures, whether it’s people coming to their managers with personal relationship issues at home, whether it’s just a small work related matter. These types of things tend to be what’s tripping people over the edge and we’re getting more businesses reaching out to us saying, What do I do in this situation? How do we help people I thought everyone was okay. And it just seems that more and more and more people are not

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