A home office reduces Stress

Many of the workers to sit on during the Corona-crisis for the first time, regularly in a home office, feel less Stress due to the work and are more satisfied overall in their Job. This is from two representative surveys conducted by the opinion research Institute IGES and Forsa on behalf of the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit. They were each more than 7,000 employed and during the pandemic were interviewed.

The number of workers, working almost every day from home, tripled during the Corona-crisis almost from formerly ten to 28 percent. From the Trend of the home office, employers and employees alike. The majority (59 percent), works in which it claims to be more productive or more productive than on-the-job. Positively, 68 per cent of employees ‘ perception of the time gain, because of the way to work is eliminated. Many workers reported that the home office work and family reconciliation.

The respondents, however, were not only the majority of satisfied with their workplace, their perceived Stress was during the pandemic, The proportion of daily stressed-out workers has declined, according to the survey, 29 percent. In December 2019, more than a fifth of the respondents were still most of the time or all the time, stressed, in April, it was only 15 percent.

However, there are also points of criticism. So three-quarters of respondents missing in a home office is the direct contact to the colleagues. Nearly half missed the opportunity, in the short term – also with the boss – to discuss 41 percent) or access to files or other work documentation lacks sufficient (. Especially young employees, it is often difficult to draw a border. A clear separation between work and private life is possible only every second under 30 years of age.

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