b'HEALTH & WELLNESSDISTRESS SIGNALSBy Sarah B. HoodCoping with COVID-19 burnout as we adaptto a new post-pandemic normalC OVID-19 has been tough on workplace health andrisking close contact between cleaners and occupants. Movers wellness, and guess what? Experts are predicting thathave heroically transported personal goods cross-country without re-entry into the post-pandemic world may be stressfulany assurance that they would be able to buy food or even use too. How can relocation professionals promote mentalwashrooms along the way.health within the industry as we navigate to whatever the new normal turns out to be? Everyone has coped with the moving targets of border closures, flight restrictions and changing pandemic restrictions. Along When it comes to mobility, the pandemic workplace has takenwith these frustrations and pressures has simmered the constant two distinctly different forms. For some, it has been a suddenanxiety of the virus itself. With each new wave, worries have switch to working from home, with the attendant stresses ofintensified about catching COVID-19 or spreading it to others, trying to replicate a professional office setting in a space that waswith potentially frightening consequences.never designed for it and experiencing a gradual blurring of the lines between on- and off-duty time. Mental Health Research Canada has been conducting an ongoing series of polls throughout the pandemic on Mental Health in Crisis: For others, it has meant rethinking every aspect of the workingHow COVID-19 is Impacting Canadians. This past June and July, the day to allow for safe contact with people in airports, rental unitsseventh poll in this series found that the prevalence of diagnosis and vehicles. Housing specialists have figured out how to showof a mental-health issue among frontline workers had risen from an apartment virtually, or in person using clever new protocols30 per cent to 40 per cent in a few months, but, for the first time, like separate elevators. Accommodation providers have learnedself-reported anxiety in the general population had dropped new ways to clean and maintain occupied rental units withoutsignificantly, from 28 per cent to 24 per cent.24PERSPECTIVES Fall 2021'