Treasury Staff Must Take It Easy to Avoid Stress
If only this kind of stuff happened in the real world…
Ahem, the private sector, sorry.
Imagine a guide to ‘stress awareness and management’ which suggested that you put off difficult decisions to another day if they are causing you anxiety.
Imagine a world where it is ‘okay’ to switch off, day dream, make errors and even fail, where: ‘Stress may be avoided if I allow myself to make mistakes… recognising that sometimes I will make mistakes and that is OK to make mistakes.’
We’re not talking Avatar here, it does exist; in the Treasury:
Daily Mail: Treasury officials have been told [in a 70-page taxpayer-funded guide] to ‘shelve problems’ to help keep their stress levels down in the face of Britain’s dire public finances…
…The brochure, which cost £2,400 to print and thousands more to produce, also tells staff to ‘shelve problems until you have the capacity to deal with them’.
Something tells us that the Treasury aren’t the only ones to have got their hands on it.
But, if you work in an accountancy firm (or most places for that matter) don’t hold your breath for a copy.
