Employee Safety

From Chapter 6 entitled Critical Approaches to Organizations and Communication in the sub section recent trends in critical organizational communication scholarship: organizing healthy organizations on pages 181 to 184 the discussion of employee health and well being is introduced. The authors state that “organizations often simply pay higher insurance premiums rather than redesign the workplace and work processes with an eye toward employee safety.” What companies do not understand is that stress is a large factor in the diminishing employee health statuses. Many employees state that they are stressed due to their job which causes a downturn in their health and an increase in bills. Instead of finding ways to help their employees, organizations simply pay more in insurance fees. This is sad to me because the companies could save money by paying less insurance and working on helping their employees by making their environment more enjoyable.

I personally have never had to experience any physical harm due to a job – unless you want to count paper cuts or sunburns – however I get so stressed that I lose my voice. This happens every few months and is so frustrating to deal with! Luckily I do not have to have frequent doctor’s visits in order to fix my voice. However, it would be nice if my boss could make the job less stressful, but he is the cause of all of my stress because he does things like: not showing up one day and when I call him to ask where he is he says he told me he was not coming in when he never did, he also says he emails me dates that are important and never does so I asked him to send me the emails with the important dates and he never could find them….interesting….so I guess it is hard to de-stress when it’s your bass causing all of it!