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However, 17% strongly agree and are therefore at a greater risk for these negative effects. When the pandemic hit, it made an already stressful life even more difficult. Instead of just having work pressure to deal with many also have kids at home and their spouses during working hours.
In Chapter Three, I discussed how we all have our own unique personality profile. Some of us are extroverted, are open to novel ideas and ways of working, and are agreeable in our dealings with others (to mention just three from the big five model). Others are introverted, don’t like change and are disagreeable when asked to do something they don’t want to do. Lauren, 28, says that working from home remote working fatigue has definitely improved her wellbeing. The Pennsylvania-based mother-of-one says that although there are some downsides, such as never feeling truly offline, the positives by far outweigh the negatives. She points out that she’s now able to work in the same room as her husband and daughter while they play together, or go to doctor’s appointments for herself or her child at a time that suits her.
Simultaneously, a significant 28.2% of employees have adapted to a hybrid work model. This model combines both home and in-office working, offering flexibility and maintaining a level of physical presence at the workplace [1]. Cat isn’t currently looking for a new job, but she says that when she does, she hopes to find a role that balances both in-person and remote work. Even though she has struggled with her wellbeing while working from home, she still wouldn’t want to go back to five days in the office a week – a sign of how complex many people’s feelings about remote work really are.
Physical and emotional load, psychological fatigue, emotional pressures, and excessive workloads brought about increased professional burnout. Demands and resources had to be balanced across organizations to diminish emotional exhaustion, professional discomfort, and job burnout while optimizing motivational processes, work performance, and psychological wellbeing. Mental and emotional stress related to increased job demands and workload reduced employee motivation and diminished workplace wellbeing. Feeling exhausted due to insufficient rest while working remotely can result not only in long-term mental health problems but also in lower productivity.
While working from home, employees have to deal with job tasks, childcare, and many other responsibilities all. More than that, employees have also been working longer hours at home which possibly resulted in burnout. While remote work is still a major perk, the arrival of a global pandemic has caused remote workers to suffer from different health problems. For example, using APS data we see that prior to the pandemic in 2019, just 26.7% of the workforce on average during the year reported that they had done any work from home.
Now, this can be tough, because you may also feel anxious because of the changes in your working life. The first thing you need to do is protect your employees from your own anxiety. You should find the balance between acknowledging people’s worries and providing a positive and hopeful message for the future. It’s that balance between acknowledging anxiety and giving hope that is the key to motivation.
Here are some practical things you can do to minimise stress and the consequent risk of burnout in remote workers. We have all built up strategies over the years to manage those situations that we find difficult. We have developed our own psychological and emotional scaffolding to support the parts of our personality that lack strength in certain situations. For example, many people who are not very conscientious gravitate to highly structured corporate organisations that help them manage the disorganised and ‘lazy’ aspects of their personality. These rigid structures are like a psychological scaffolding holding the persona together. This is why some veterans struggle with civilian life, when the military ‘scaffolding’ is absent.
