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Labor indiscipline is a behavior that can be the result of affectations in employees who suffered from COVID-19 and face depression, anxiety or other neurological disorders.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates among the conditions for COVID-19, brain fog.
Figures projected by the IMSS warn that workers affiliated with the institution have manifested impaired concentration and memory, after having suffered from COVID-19.
Talk about labor indiscipline in the Mexican market forces us to remember that the country and the rest of the world faced a health contingency, which led employees to confine themselves at any moment. That process was drastic, as is the return to normality.as we see with figures that we will quote below and conditions that are being registered in the average of employees in this period and in the middle of 2023.
Qualtricsfor example, has figures of the number of employees who presented mental health conditions since the contingency was unleashed. 53.8 percent said they were emotionally exhausted; for 53 percent increased their sadness day after day; 50 percent said it is more irritable; 42 percent reported having more confusion; for 38 percent their insomnia; 32 percent stated greater anger and 24 percent increased feelings of blame.
Labor indiscipline?
After the health contingency, there were health conditions in people who suffered from COVID-19 and the labor indiscipline suffered by workplaces, may be the result of the neurological symptoms that were unleashed as a result of this phenomenon.
Figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that among the subsequent conditions caused by COVID-19 are tiredness, fatigue, fevers, cough, chest pain, palpitations; but among the neurological symptoms of this long list of conditions are the discomfort generated by mental effort; difficulty thinking or concentrating, also known as brain fog; sleep problems, depression and anxiety.
Regarding estimates from the Health Regulations Directorate of the Institute for Security and Social Services for State Workers (Issste), they warn that up to 15 percent of the people who suffered from COVID-19 presented neurological affections.
There are reports from the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in which it is noted that as of the third quarter of 2021, a number of 220 thousand 907 people were registered who manifested sequelae after having been infected with COVID-19, in which health problems were common. memory, concentration and difficulty sleeping.
Faced with these neurological affectations, there are challenges for talent in the workplace and it is that 93 percent of employees interviewed by Manpower identified how working life has undergone various transformations, such as the substitution of personnel and the lack of opportunities. As a result, the employees consulted even reported not wanting to go back to the old way of working.
Talent management firm specialists Forhuman They listed three types of indiscipline: tardiness, theft, and noncompliance with assigned tasks.
Labor indiscipline may be the result of the unwillingness of most employees not to return to the old way of working, in addition to the fact that the universe of workers who suffered from COVID-19 may present neurological affectations, so more than one conduct problem in the offices, we are seeing a lack of protocols to attend to talent affected by health continence.