When Coffee isn’t Enough… Combatting Work Place Fatigue In Remote Workers
Published on: 24/06/2021
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Mairead Regan Associate, Clarendon Executive, Life and Executive Coach, MR Coaching; HR Consultant
Mairead Regan Associate, Clarendon Executive, Life and Executive Coach, MR Coaching; HR Consultant
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Mairead Regan is a qualified Life and Executive Coach (QQI Level 6), with a first class honours degree in Psychology and a postgraduate qualification in Human Resources (MCIPD).

She has more than 25 years’ experience in Human Resources at a senior level, with 19 of these at Director level in the broadcasting industry (television, radio and digital).

Her coaching style combines empathy, insight and compassion, while challenging you to explore the issues that you are facing in a safe and supportive space.

‘I’ll get round to it soon – I’m just too tired.’

‘I just don’t have the energy. The tank is empty.’

‘I don’t have time to stop and rest.’

How many of us have been feeling like this recently?  Our self-imposed expectation of having to ‘keep it all together’ during the Covid pandemic and our fear of revealing to others what we see as our vulnerabilities has led to what Horrobin (2021) calls ‘the perfect storm of crisis and isolation’. The last 16 months have seen many of us coping with sustained periods of fear, uncertainly, anxiety and, inevitably, fatigue and exhaustion.

Fatigue and its impact on work performance has long been an area for research. Workplace factors shown to

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