Covid-19, physical distancing in the workplace and employees mental health: Implications and insights for organizational interventions-narrative review

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dc.contributor.authorHamouche, Salima
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T09:22:39Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T09:22:39Z
dc.date.copyright© 2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionThis review article is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this article is published in Psychiatria Danubina (2021), available online at: https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2021.202en_US
dc.description.abstractPhysical distancing is one of the non-pharmaceutical measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Although it appears to be effective in mitigating this spread, its implementation in workplaces may undermine employees mental health. In fact, torn between the fear of contagion and the need to maintain their jobs, employees must also comply with physical distancing measures in the workplace, which alter social interactions and set a predetermined frame and distance that guide employees behaviors within the organization while they need empathy. This situation might increase their level of stress. This paper is a narrative review that addresses the impact of physical distancing in the workplace on employees mental health. It presents the main factors that might moderate this impact and it recommends organizational interventions that can help to mitigate it. Physical distancing measures in workplaces are necessary and inevitable. Notwithstanding, they might undermine employees mental health, whence the importance to implement proper organizational actions to support employees and to facilitate their adaptation, in this unprecedented organizational change. This paper examines a relatively unexplored topic. It goes beyond examining social isolation to explore how setting a predetermined frame and distance can have an impact on employees mental health and recommends interventions that might help organizations to prevent mental health issues. © 2021 Medicinska Naklada Zagreb. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHamouche, S. (2021). Covid-19, physical distancing in the workplace and employees mental health: Implications and insights for organizational interventions-narrative review. Psychiatria Danubina, 33(2), 202-208. https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2021.202en_US
dc.identifier.issn03535053
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2021.202
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/400
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMedicinska Naklada Zagreben_US
dc.relationAuthors Affiliations : Hamouche, S., Faculty of Management, Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPsychiatria Danubina;Volume 33, Issue 2
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution License The use of full text of the papers from this journal is free for personal or educational purposes with prior permission of the copyright owners (authors and publisher)
dc.rights.holderCopyright : © 2021 Medicinska Naklada Zagreb. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectCOVID-19-occupational healthen_US
dc.subjecthuman resource managementen_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.subjectsocial distancingen_US
dc.titleCovid-19, physical distancing in the workplace and employees mental health: Implications and insights for organizational interventions-narrative reviewen_US
dc.typeReview Articleen_US

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