Working From Home and Job Burnout.

The situation of “job burnout” does not only happen to people who stay in the office for a long time from 9 to 5 every day. Now due to the impact of the COVID19, a large number of people around the world have moved their workplaces from their offices to their daily homes. , Although I was helpless when I first heard about “working from home,” it must be good news to some extent for people who need to commute for a long time every day. But in fact, working at home is not necessarily easier than working in the office, and it may even increase many factors that make people physically and mentally stressed. When people are under high pressure for a long time, they will experience burnout. It will begin to affect people’s physical and mental health. With so many workers suddenly working at home with multiple responsibilities, they may be more prone to exhaustion.

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The following are the risk factors:

Border disappears

Lack of work-life balance is an important cause of burnout. Working from home can make it more difficult to achieve this balance. Leaving the office every day to commute is a mandatory boundary that helps to separate work from personal life. Losing commute while working from home is a major benefit, but it also means that there are no barriers between work and family. If you never actually turn off your computer or leave work, it is easy to continue working at night or on weekends.

In order to avoid working around the clock, experts recommend that you establish clearer boundaries on your own. For example, in addition to the check-in action during the work period, add a ceremonial action. The easiest way is to change clothes to indicate the start of work or a break after getting off work. You can also try to set other types of physical boundaries through daily activities, such as exercising before starting or ending work, or exercising during your “lunch break”, taking regular coffee breaks elsewhere in the home, and Chat with friends or watch videos during this time, etc.

Lack of control

Employees who feel that they cannot control their schedules, interaction, and time management are at risk of exhaustion. In view of all the uncertainties that currently exist, the epidemic, the economy, the length of the lockdown, family factors, company conditions… everything seems to be up in the air. Creating a work schedule will help you regain control of work, family, and free time. After all, it’s easier for people to move from work to private during this period.

The pressure to be a “perfect employee”

When the epidemic is not out of control, people actually have a mentality of hope that they can become “perfect employees”. This is a way to put pressure on themselves to achieve a state of working harder. After the outbreak, the work pattern has changed to remote work. This trend has also been exacerbated, simply because “I don’t want others or even leaders to think that I am messing up at home and not working.”

The tide of unemployment caused by the relationship between the global epidemic and the general lack of security in the economy and work has made people more pressured to show their productivity and invaluable assets because they are afraid that they will become unemployed. In fact, the method is not difficult. After setting the work goal, discuss with the leader or higher management about the work goal and the expectations of your work. This may be something that no one has done before. After all, the leadership or The upper management of the company can hide as long as they can. Wanting to hide and wanting to make a good impression at the top are really two things that contradict each other. Now, during this special period, everyone should make things clear, and do well in the goals discussed during the period, so you don’t have to worry about it at home.

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Lack of social connections

Even if you are not alone at home, working at home may be isolated. Working in the office with colleagues to solve problems or provide some help when things get tense can reduce burnout. When the scene is switched to the home, it is equivalent to a shortage of colleagues who can be brought up for discussion right away, which can make people feel very isolated.

Because when working from home, maintaining these social interactions requires more energy. You must carefully consider contacting others, but it is possible to have audio or video conferencing to help continue your relationship.

It can also be a sign of burnout when you start to feel that you don’t want to care about the content of your work. It is recommended that members of the team hold regular online meetings to review their work status together, and at the same time maintain a social relationship with other than family members, which is sufficient to help determine the priority of work and provide feedback. This can help employees have more opportunities to participate in the decision-making process and allow team members to have a sense of self-worth because of their successful contributions.

No time for myself

last of the last! ! Don’t forget to take care of and accompany yourself during your busy schedule. Slow down for an afternoon and focus on a task that can bring you happiness, so that you can fully concentrate on doing that thing right now, instead of taking longer because of synchronization. But nothing is done well. Once people enter the state of multitasking, it is easy for people to lose the fun of everything in progress. Usually, you may like to cook at home, and the studio also enjoys the process of talking with customers and business partners, but when two things must be done at the same time, you are bound to be bored and bored with both.

At present, no one knows how long the epidemic will last. Some people have even suggested that in the future, humans may learn to coexist with the virus on the earth and must change their original way of life. Once life and work have lost the boundary, it is either a waste of work or a waste of life. Taking advantage of this period to develop the habit of self-time management will not only make work more efficient but also maintain sufficient daily leisure life and obtain new Balance points.

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