The drive to go back to business as usual is running roughshod over our collective loss, the grinding uncertainty, the grief. Whether or not business leaders are adequately addressing the repeated blows to employee morale and mental health arising from having family, friends, and co-workers who are laid off, sick, or worse is highly questionable.
That experience made me think about all the other people forced to act as if it were “business as usual” even when so many things are increasingly unusual. How do you proceed in this environment? Is it not delusional to think you can? Is anybody thinking about the toll this period is taking on everybody?
Every day on Twitter, I see someone complaining about how they are working now more than ever. Everyday I see the lamentations of the blurred lines between work, home, and school. Every day I see expressions of fear — and then later, tweets about needing to get work done anyway.