4 Ways to Lead Your Organization Through the Omicron Surge

Leaders are scrambling to minimize the highly contagious variant's impact on employees' mental health and engagement, while avoiding another wave of the Great Resignation

A stock photo showing an UK volunteer offering Mental Health Support in Ealing, United Kingdom, during the Coronavirus lockdown. Employers should try to minimize impact of the COVID-19 effects on employee mental health, for instance via engagement and proactive communication. Leon Neal/Getty Images

By Claire Brummell

We are all aware that navigating the last couple of years has had a devastating impact on our organizations and teams, but then for a few brief months, it seemed like we could see the light at the end of what has been a very dark pandemic tunnel. And then came the discovery of the Omicron variant.

All the hope for a return to some kind of sustained normal in the near future appears to have been dashed, with some regions of the world reporting cases of Omicron doubling every two-to-three days and returning to work-from-home recommendations.