Are you concerned about your job’s security amid Trump tariffs and an uncertain economic outlook? Have you felt let down by your employer’s internal processes?
Perhaps you are burnt out due to an increasing workload? Or maybe you are considering leaving your company altogether due to a drive to return to the office.
We want to hear from you about any work-related issues you want to put to our panel of experts.
We have received many queries on working from home, detailing unique challenges in having to spend more and more time in the office, or dealing with the isolation felt by some while working from home. We want to hear more.
Your work questions answered: I was humiliated and verbally abused by my manager, what rights do I have?
Your work questions answered: My employee has changed hours without permission, what can I do?
My company is clamping down on working from home. Can I reject this change?
Your work questions answered: ‘I have ADHD and so work from home a lot. When I go to the office, nobody speaks to me’
Has your employer called for a greater presence in the office? What effect has this had on you? You might have found that hybrid working arrangements have led to a collapse of workplace relationships and friendships.
Other queries have spanned private and public pensions, feeling overqualified for specific roles, inappropriate behaviour in the office, or being the subject of allegations of misconduct, resulting in suspension.
Work-related stress and burnout queries are coming in at an increasing rate, which experts say are on the rise. Have you experienced these?
Perhaps you are unhappy in your current role and want to see what else is on offer, particularly in this employees’ market in a country at near full employment.
Conflict arising from hybrid working arrangements, which can often result in allegations of workplace bullying, is also on the rise, according to our panel of experts. Have you experienced such conflict and want to know more on how to handle it?
Maternity-leave related queries and parental leave worries, flawed internal grievance processes, and recruitment and promotion-related queries have also been dealt with by our panel of experts.
Alongside employees, managers and employers grappling with a sometimes unhappy workforce have sought advice on navigating hybrid working arrangements, challenges in retaining talent and even handling social gatherings outside of the office.
Finding new ways of coping with conflict is an ever-present challenge, as even very experienced people in charge of their career trajectory will often find themselves coming home each night with a tale of woe to offload on their partner.
The intensity of such experience is clearly often worsened as people take on more responsibility through promotion and years spent in a particular working environment. But people at the start of their careers can easily find themselves in even more testing environments.
This column has sought to specialise in finding new ways to effectively bypass or solve such issues, and readers have proven hugely interested in how peers approach such scenarios, how they would themselves react in these situations, and deal with perceptions of blame.
A remarkable example of workplace conflict involved a HR executive suffering from burnout - a phenomenon such staff are typically supposed to solve, not get caught up in.
Please use our attached form to send in any workplace queries that you may have. We do everything to ensure your details are anonymised where necessary in published responses. We seek expert responses from the most relevant people to ensure clear-sighted, accessible advice.
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This column is not intended to replace professional advice and only questions selected for publication can be answered.
