Solely 14% of European staff wish to return to the workplace 9-5, and greater than half say they’ve grow to be extra productive because of working from residence, which has boomed amid COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, a survey confirmed on Thursday.
However “hybrid working” – a mixture of working at residence and on the workplace – additionally has its draw back, with over 1 / 4 of respondents feeling like they work all hours or into the evening, in line with the survey commissioned by Samsung Electronics and the consultancy The Future Laboratory.
The survey of 14,000 folks throughout Europe additionally indicated that 83% of staff have been looking for extra help from their employers to assist stability their work and residential lives.
About 12% of employed folks within the European Union normally labored from residence in 2020, up from round 5% earlier than the pandemic, in line with information from Eurostat.
“With presenteeism now an outdated idea, employers want to think twice about how they meet the calls for of contemporary hybrid residing,” Benjamin Braun, vice chairman for Samsung Europe, mentioned in a press release.
Two-thirds of Europeans mentioned that they had made – or have been planning – residence enhancements to make hybrid residing simpler, for instance by creating workplace areas at residence, whereas 41% had determined to maneuver home.
Within the survey by the world’s largest reminiscence chip and smartphone maker, 51% mentioned expertise was serving to them set boundaries, for instance, by utilizing cellular alarms or time administration purposes.
“We’re prone to see tech stepping in to watch our psychological well being and happiness as a lot as our bodily well being, with sensible units turning into our wellbeing assistants,” mentioned Meik Wiking, chief government of Denmark’s Happiness Analysis Institute, which is collaborating with Samsung on the way forward for work.
(Reuters)