Abstract
A short note on corporate social responsibility will be more effective by practising Altruism and empathy in the workplace and how it will boost up the physical and mental health of employees and society.

Main Content
“Moving the CSR needle: Aligning with the National Priorities.”

Corporate social responsibility is extremely important nowadays to control and compensate for the effects of industry on society aimed at maintaining the profits and brand name of the company. Based on this, most of the public sector and some of the private sector companies concentrate on the social welfare of the society in education, skill development and livelihoods, agriculture and rural development, health, safe drinking water and sanitation, environment, sustainable development and solar energy Infrastructure fields. This is a great support for the people in the society living near the company.

Providing service to society through CSR activity gives a sense of pride to the company and the employees who are working in the company. Company and society are not separate domains in the sense that members of a big company are also a subset of society. That’s why the company is taking care of its employees and their family health and welfare.

When we talk about the consequences of COVID-19, we come to know that the Mental Health crisis increased significantly after the pandemic. This was the time when corporations had to concentrate on this issue on their employees and society in general. According to the studies, the main issues within the company are distress, anxiety, depression, and phobia, which we consider as the starting state of mental health disorders.

Many big companies are taking countermeasures, as they are arranging for psychiatric consultation and counselling through online/offline webinars and creating awareness about mental health issues among their employees. But this is very much limited as on a primary front, it is being organized by large corporations who can fund these events and on a secondary front, if events are being organized, they are not reaching the lowest strata of workers of society.

At different levels of society, these above issues arise due to unplanned action, communication gaps, discrimination, inequality, and urgency to achieve the target.
Employees being a part of society, they all should work together to mitigate the issue, which is a good CSR role in the mental health of the employees in the workplace. If an employee is in good mental status then his family will live happily which becomes a catalyst for society to grow.

Corporates can do it successfully because they have employees with administrative power, implementation and execution power and are well aware of the employees’ physical and mental health issues according to the workload and how to manage the stress of the employees. That’s why the government has given this duty to the corporations to do better in CSR activity, which benefits the company to grow along with the employees and gain good profit and brand. Here, people should also try to altruistically help each other, work together in society, and grow with the company’s growth.

Altruism and empathetic workplaces are a very important part of a company’s working culture.
The most important aspect is nurturing a community within the company, creating a space where everyone has a voice and allowing people to get to know each other inside and outside of the office. Altruism and caring for others are part of daily activities, an empathetic and empowered workspace provides a good platform to work together as a company to express itself and make a real difference in society. Working culture should inculcate openness and honesty about altruistic intentions and let employees contribute their ideas, time, and energy to causes that they find significant. Many companies have corporate social responsibility initiatives, but they should also implement them to bring change to the world, which is very powerful for productivity and morale.

Everyone should develop an altruistic nature to help individuals with work-related issues and family-related issues.

One should positively perceive others and give out healthy communication to help others in combating anxiety and distress-related circumstances in the workplace.

Encouragement and motivational talks with coworkers to create a depression-free environment, at the same time, everyone should be aware of their strengths and weaknesses and come forward to develop the skill to change weaknesses to strengths from the resources to achieve self-development.

What we should adopt: