You Are Not Alone If You Don't Care About Work During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Timely article - especially for me. I find myself just wanting to disengage from work. Sigh, I have a ton of documentation to complete today because I have been putting it off.
You Are Not Alone If You Don't Care About Work During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Doing only what you need to do to stay employed is a totally reasonable response to quarantine.
By
Monica Torres
If you still have a job while tens of millions of Americans file for unemployment benefits, you are in a privileged position right now. But that doesn’t mean your performance is not being affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Even if your job is meaningful to you, it can be understandably hard to stay motivated or even care much about it during a global pandemic that is infecting millions and has killed over 187,000 people worldwide.
“The sudden reminders of our mortality, and the suddenness with which people are dying can conjure existential crises, can inevitably make us wonder what our legacies are as we are seeing so many
people’s lives cut short,” said Kristin Bianchi, a Maryland-based
licensed psychologist at the Center for Anxiety and Behavior Change.
[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-care-about-work-coronavirus_l_5ea0aa73c5b69150246ce525|
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