Self care is about caring for each other, right?

Post date: 2021-03-06 11:03:05
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Are there good enlightened articles online expanding on the perspective that there needs to be acknowledgment that burnout, overwork, stress in our pandemic times isn't just solved with a bubble baths, vacation days, and self-care time? My team just got lectured by our boss that we need to take ownership of our well-being, and it was so tone-deaf my ears are still clanging. (More inside)

We're exhausted. It's been well-established that knowledge workers' work doesn't end at the end of the day. Taking vacation time doesn't magically reassign work to others (especially in an environment of perpetual under-staffing, overwork, lack of back up coverage, and pushing people into bootstrapping structural inefficiencies). We got lectured to use our vacation time, to make sure that we don't check email while on vacation, and that we should take control of our self-care. We are office workers who are all working from home, but the majority of people on the team are women with families (including young kids) and are juggling high workloads in a competitive work environment. I would like to share articles with my boss (make, white) that illustrates why this "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" just doesn't work, and instead it's better to acknowledge those structural issues and creates a space for the team to feel like they can trust our manager to understand what's our reality.

Note: this mefi post on the Feminist Survival Project is good but when you go to their site, that info is buried. It would be ideal if there's mainstream media articles that make the point. Anon given workplace sensitivities.
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