The pandemic has rocked everyone’s world, from the way we live and socialize to how we think about life itself. Many of us are still dealing with the horrors of lives lost and health issues from which we can never truly recover. For most of us, the last few years have drastically changed the way we work, from the where to the how. Although it has been over three years now since the world shut down, the impact the pandemic has on our lives continues–whether we are aware of it or not.
At the very beginning of the pandemic, the corporate world worked entirely from home. We turned to tools like Zoom and Slack in order to keep the business going and stay connected to one another. Most companies had to either make cuts or furlough a chunk of their people. Some did so out of necessity to survive while others used it as the catalyst to “trim the fat.” Those who cut too thin learned the hard way that having fewer people does not always equate to efficiency. The 9 to 5 quickly became the 7 to 10: working from the crack of dawn to late at night. The costly effect of burnout soon took hold, resulting in regrettable churn. That, coupled with the YOLO (You Only Live Once) philosophy taking the workforce by storm, had countless companies losing great talent. We were no exception.
