Have you ever heard of 'bed rotting’? If your answer is 'no' and you act as a manager in a company – it doesn't matter the size or the segment – I advise you to pay attention to this term, especially if you have younger employees on your team. Making the translation from English, the term 'bed rottingmeans 'rotting in bed', and it is related to spending a good amount of time lounging in bed after waking up
The term gained traction among young people on social media, starting from atrenddo TikTok. The audience that has been adopting this practice, in addition to helping to spread your concept, it is precisely Generation Z, born from 1996 to 2010, and are frequently criticized by a large part of the organizations due to their behaviors and conduct, often inappropriate for the corporate environment
Despite the 'bed rottingbeing classified as a self-care practice, there is still no scientific evidence that it actually works and even less that it is good for people's health. On the contrary, spending too much time in bed doing nothing and "rotting", as the term suggests, only tends to bring harm to people in general, in their personal and professional lives
The truth is that, from the moment we start to be integrated into the job market, we are subject to having excessive demands that can sometimes cause us stress and fatigue. However, when we find ourselves in this deadlock, the ideal is to seek support from leadership to report the problem and align what can be done to alleviate the burden, what can happen without the leader noticing
However, it is worth noting that for this to happen, the manager also needs to be very well prepared to handle the situation, both to support the employee and to not judge them, in order not to further harm your well-being and eventually your mental health. It is essential for the leader to have a lot of flexibility to understand what is happening before making the respective decisions
Besides a rest or a decrease in activities, depending on the case, leadership can also think of ways to help the team organize better. Many times, people do not necessarily have so many tasks, but they don't know how to manage their time and end up taking everything lightly, you taking a long time to do, you starting one activity and stopping to start another, and so on in a vicious cycle
I consider it essential that the manager helps employees understand that quality time to rest and even to do nothing is very important, but it should be limited and shared with other responsibilities – whether in personal life and especially in the workplace, where other individuals depend on you. Balance is a way for it to work
In this aspect, it is necessary to know how to give importance to the discipline of monitoring the team's goals and objectives, but also take advantage, as a leader, the moment eye to eye to try to understand what is not being said in words, but the body is speaking
The dangers of bed rotting for professional life
