Category: Designing healthy working environments

If you struggle frequently with migraines, suffer from an autoimmune disease or another chronic illness or impairment, you may be absent from work due to illness more often than others. Or you may have the same job performance as others, but find it much harder to perform at the same level or work under the same conditions. Or maybe you are not aware that you have a chronic illness or what is considered a “chronic illness”? Perhaps you are worried about what colleagues and superiors might think and whether your health impairment has negative consequences for your work activity.

MLU positions itself as an employer that can and wants to adapt to individual concerns. In this article, we want which services are offered by MLU and how MLU can support you. The article is intended to support you in making an informed decision as to whether you would like to disclose your health impairment to your employer and to show you where suitable contact persons and consulting partners are available.

Is the health of your employees and colleagues important to you? You recognize that healthy and satisfied employees can make working together more effective?
Then take part in our work situation analysis with your team!

The daily work routine when working from home looks different than in the office at university and also poses different challenges. One colleague’s child may be at home and is often interrupted at work as a result, another colleague feels like she has to respond even late at night when her supervisor writes an e-mail, another colleague withdraws completely and you don’t hear or see anything from him. What can you do to still work well together?

Ergonomics at the kitchen chair?! Anyone who has ever worked for several hours at home at the kitchen table with a laptop knows that this can’t be good for your back. But if you can’t get an office chair on the fly – what can you do?

Working from home is challenging because working hours and leisure time may blend into one another, up to the point where you feel the need to be available at all times and experience a dissociation of work and private life.

Sometimes self-care is not enough to stay healthy and balanced. If you need help from others, please don’t hesitate to ask for it.

When work is done, it is important to recover and distance yourself from tasks and deadlines. There are many ways in which this can be achieved. What are your sources of strength? What can you use to recharge your batteries?