80+ million Americans working at home in midst of pandemic represent a huge psychological experiment:
62% feel more empathetic toward coworkers
but 60% feel less connected to their teams https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-work-from-home-shift-shocked-companiesnow-theyre-learning-its-lessons-11595649628
62% feel more empathetic toward coworkers
but 60% feel less connected to their teams https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-work-from-home-shift-shocked-companiesnow-theyre-learning-its-lessons-11595649628
Brain studies of people in remote video meetings reveal people check out 30-40 minutes in, and this "Zoom fatigue" follows them the rest of the day.
We're all in too many meetings; importantly, they're also too long. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-work-from-home-shift-shocked-companiesnow-theyre-learning-its-lessons-11595649628
We're all in too many meetings; importantly, they're also too long. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-work-from-home-shift-shocked-companiesnow-theyre-learning-its-lessons-11595649628
One reason people feel lonely, want to go back to the office is that we've built our social lives around work.
But what if we didn't?
Pandemic makes this hard. But a case to be made the decline of civic engagement correlates with increase in "workism" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/
But what if we didn't?
Pandemic makes this hard. But a case to be made the decline of civic engagement correlates with increase in "workism" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/
So @SeanBlanda has a very good piece on the downsides of remote work. Economic as well as personal. And his feed has yet more.
Worth reading about how remote work can be misused in order to understand how to build it in a way that is more human.e https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/
Worth reading about how remote work can be misused in order to understand how to build it in a way that is more human.e https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/