"There are no universal recipes": HR JatApp explained how to stay afloat when work is mixed with anxiety

“Traditional approaches to productivity fail,” writes Anastasia Nakonechna, HR partner at Ukrainian IT company JatApp, in her LinkedIn post . She describes how daily work changes when anxiety, uncertainty, and news noise are constantly present in the background.

According to her, in the new reality, it is not enough to simply be a professional - you need internal flexibility, honesty with yourself, security rituals, and control over the information field.

Here are five principles that, according to an HR expert, help you "not get lost in the chaos":

• Small rituals: short physical activities, favorite things, a “to-do list without tantrums,” and other habits that give the illusion of order.
• Honesty: not from a resume, but real honesty — when you acknowledge your limitations and discuss them with the team.
• Flexibility: the ability to change plans, move deadlines, or abandon irrelevant things.
• Empathy: not only for others, but also for yourself - as the basis of team safety.
• Information hygiene: limiting the news stream to 15 minutes twice a day, filtering channels as a way to preserve the nervous system.

“It used to seem to me that the question of ‘how to survive stress’ was more about books and advice. Now it’s about daily experiences that you didn’t order, but have to live through,” Nakonechna admits.

In her opinion, it is precisely maintaining an "inner presence" that becomes critically important: not losing a sense of self even in situations when everything around is going haywire.

Let us remind you that in one of our previous articles , the CEO of HR agency HR-Lab, Yulia Pashchenko, shared the story of hiring a specialist who refused to work on a schedule with two days off, demanding a third.

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