Dealing with Stress, Anxiety and Distraction in Post-COVID19 Workplaces
COVID19 presents a new normal in the world and the workplace is also not spared from this change. Silicon Valley startups like Facebook and Google have announced that their employees can work fully from home until 2021, and Twitter’s CEO has announced that employees can work from home permanently if their work permits.
While working from home is not new for some, it presents new challenges for millions of employees who are not used to it. Employees are finding it difficult to achieve work-life balance when work and life are now within the same 4 walls of the house.
Burnout has officially been recognised by WHO as an official illness pre-COVID19, and now, it will only get worse as work-life boundaries are blurred with working from home. With most people clocking in more hours while working from home, clear remote-workplace strategies and effective communications are paramount to help improve the wellbeing, engagement and productivity of employees.