Peoples new levels of anger are a risk to your employees personal safety as people return to the office.
I am not sure if it’s just the work I do or has anyone else noticed a rise in the level of peoples anger.
Frustration, a year of reduced social interaction, anger at loss of work, financial loss, conspiracy theories and probably a load of other things have all added to some peoples anger.
My experience is that tempers are on a much shorter fuse causing violence and aggression to escalate quicker. What would have previously been shrugged off may now result in a violent outburst.
Coupled with that is a reduced level of burglary and robbery partly due to increased working from home. This results in a whole industry (theft) that needs to recover its productivity (more victims).
A year of Covid-19 restrictions has made us angrier – here’s how to handle the rage
