Changing Our Campus Culture
The Center for Changing Our Campus Culture provides the latest research, sample campus policies, protocols, best practices, and information on how to access training opportunities and technical assistance.
How to Build a Support Network
Here are five ideas that can help you strengthen your support network.
4 Tips to Effectively Ask for Help—and Get a Yes
Learning how to ask for (and accept) help is perhaps one of the greatest skills you can develop. Luckily, new research shows that asking for and actually getting help is a lot easier and less daunting than it seems
Building Your Self-Care Toolkit
As the worldwide situation remains uncertain, taking care of your own health and wellbeing is more important than ever. If you don’t feel like you have the time for self-care, it’s probably a sign that you need it the most!
In this microsite, explore why self-care should be part of your routine and how to work it into your daily life, no matter the situation.
The Student Toolkit
Within this toolkit, you’ll find information on common issues in the games industry, such as anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome and burnout. We offer tips about how you can practice self care and get support as a student.
Join Level Up Mental Health
Safe In Our World is challenging all companies within the video games industry to unite and commit to change. The worlds we create are a refuge for many, but we must consider our teams and the impact our industry has on their lives. We’re asking the entire video games industry to #LevelUpMentalHealth within their workplaces, ensuring that the environment is safe and supportive for their team’s mental health at all times.
How To Avoid Video Game Development Crunch
Last week we revealed the Best Places To Work in the UK: a timely reminder that not all games developers are suffering. Within those group of winners, a large proportion of them boasted about “zero-crunch policies” and “avoiding crunch at all costs”. So we asked a few of them if they’d be willing to share with the world their advice on preventing crunch from happening.
10 Ways Companies Can Be More Family-Friendly
Family-friendly policies, such as paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and childcare, are not a reality for most new parents around the world.
Parents need time and support to give their children the best start in life. So what can business do? Here are 10 ways businesses can help create a more family-friendly workplace.
Signs Of a Toxic Work Culture—And How To Correct Them
If you look at teams that are happy, engaged, and doing their best work, they typically have one thing in common—they work in a healthy and supportive work environment.
But the opposite is also true, and a toxic work culture can not only cause serious issues for your team—but serious issues for your business.
How to Deal With HR Issues of Discrimination
Discrimination complaints can be particularly costly to a small business, which is not always equipped with the legal resources to deal with such issues. Defending a formal charge of discrimination involves a significant amount of time, expense and attorney fees and can damage the company’s reputation, affecting your ability to recruit talent in the future. Your small business can prevent these incidents by implementing policies to prevent discrimination at all levels of the organization and promptly investigating any allegations of discrimination.
