The work output expected of the staff under its care is bad and getting worse. The stress and mental anguish experienced by its staff is a festering boil that shouldn't be ignored. Recreational leave is near on impossible to access due to severe staff shortages, couple this with the ever present demands for efficiency, flexibility and fear of sudden unemployment are all causing an undiagnosed depression load. Who cares? No body, not CASA, not the organization, or its overlying organization and certainly not the travelling public. While profits are up and fares are down, everyone is happy, except the people at the coalface.
If you stand yourself down due to stress you're as good as marked, therefore most suffer in silence, and while the problem is silent, there is no problem.
Certainly sounds familiar.
I think that the increase in communications from the company to the employee that has come with iPads, email, iPhones etc has meant staff don’t relax as much as they used to when they do get free time. The fact that managers can see when texts are received and when emails are read, the fact that any third tier manager can fire out a memo to 5000 staff twice a day with no knowledge of how many memos the other thirty third tier managers are sending out has its impact as well.
All in all, mental health suffers if not managed carefully.