Why is handling employee relations so overwhelming?
Dealing with systemic issues and heavy employee relations workloads causes extreme stress, leading professionals to experience severe anxiety and health impacts. This relentless pressure makes the environment unbearable and forces people to transition out of the workplace entirely.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Leaving the job for a new position at a more stable company
- 2managing it with diet, exercise, counselling
- 3taking some time off
- 4exploring going to therapy consistently
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I posted here last week about some really awful employee relations and systemic issues I was dealing with in my last 5 days of my old job.”source ↗
“I have been working in HR for 11 years. The last six years have been heavily employee relations focused and I have always found it overwhelming.”source ↗
“I feel this. I went on anxiety medicine last year because it all just became too much.”source ↗
Where this came up
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