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Separating employees who are friends so they don't distract one another, expecting people to disregard hunger outside meal breaks, and generally pretending people are "machines", are just some of the ways employers trying to "fix" so-called problems are making them worse.

Without a solid understanding of why safety is a biological imperative and how it affects cognition, those trying to reduce psychosocial risks in the workplace will likely increase them, Sustainable Brain founder Dr Isabelle Phillips tells HR Daily.

One of the knee-jerk reactions to psychosocial safety obligations that Phillips is seeing at the moment is employers saying, "let's give them all more rostered days off"...