Nobody likes feeling they have too much on their plate, or that they’re burning out in their career.
No one.
Yet that seems like the standard mode of operating this year. Eight months into a global work-from-home experiment, previous work and life boundaries have almost entirely dissolved. For all the benefits technology brings, the pressure to ‘always be-on’ has reached new [and dangerous] heights.
One study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found the average workday lengthened 48 minutes in the weeks following work-from-home mandates; virtual meetings increased 13 percent. The study collated data from over 21,000 companies worldwide and found this most prevalent in the US, where homeworkers logged on three hours more per day than before lockdowns, according to data from NordVPN.
55 percent of Americans claim to be more stressed in May than January. This is not a localized phenomenon. “A recent study by Cigna, found anxiety levels increased among workers in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong after governments closed parts of their economies and telecommuting swept the region.”
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