Recession Fatigue

If you normally do not have regularly scheduled group meetings with your employees, start them now. Strongly encourage your CEO/President/General Manager/Whatever his or her title is to talk openly and honestly with your employees during these meetings. Tell them "the good, the bad, and the ugly" about your sales volume, current backlog of orders, the general state of your particular industry, etc. Respect your employees enough to know that they can successfully handle good news as well as bad news.