I’ll start by saying I am really not trying to be a goady dickhead. I have family members with mental health issues and I know how difficult it can be.
But I have a colleague who was off work for six months with work related stress. She has now been back for six months. But she hasn’t taken on anywhere near the normal workload as someone her grade should and as a result me and the rest of the team are spread pretty thinly. Our manager tried to work with her to move to a different, less pressured team but she didn’t want to go so now we are in this awkward situation where we need 3 people to do the job and we kind of have 2.5. If that really. There isn’t the budget to hire someone additional. We’ve all tried to be as supportive as possible, and our manager is quite flexible with things like her working from home and coming in late if she feels unwell. But now we are really in the thick of our busy period my other colleague is starting to get worked up about the volume of our work. I don’t really mind as I like being busy and enjoy the job so I don’t mind clocking up extra hours but I don’t like to see either of my colleagues stressed.
I just don’t really know what we can do though! I don’t want to make her mental health worse by having her do the stressful work but Also don’t want my other colleague to go the same way.
I guess I am just looking for other people’s experiences with workplace stress, how you/they returned to work etc and how any issues were dealt with.