How To Address Someone With Bad Hygiene
Approaching the person with reassurance and patience can help overcome obstacles.
How to address someone with bad hygiene. We want to look smell act and hold ourselves to high standards because it is the reputation of the company at stake. In a way your workmates hygiene at the office is your business. My boyfriend and I have been together for 5 years.
As an educator I would consider it my job. Try to work out ways of coping without argument or confrontation. Continue the conversation by stating the poor hygiene that you have noticed.
The following are some tips for handling an employee with poor personal hygiene. Secondly hygiene impacts social interactions. A lot of people struggle to do basic hygiene tasks when depressed.
Someone who practices poor hygiene at work gives you a bit more justification to address the situation because your colleague represents the company. I wish we lived in a society where it would be bad to hold someone back from being successful simply because they didnt wear deodorant. Whether someone complains to you or you notice it yourself this is not a problem that should be ignored.
But its also important to address the less visible elements of hygiene things like proper hand washing and general workspace cleanliness. So good hygiene allows us to interact with other people more positively. The issue escalates when you bring that person into a group setting.
Dont ignore the problem. For the last 3 years since we moved in together I have been pointing out his poor personal hygiene habits and overall cleanliness. The 2013 study explored the effects of poor hygiene on productivity and found that 75 per cent of workers struggle to work alongside someone with bad body odour and 64 per cent find it difficult to work with a colleague who has bad breath.