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The Biggest Problem Facing At-Home Employees
HOW TO IDENTIFY AND STOP WFH BURNOUT
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When employees first started working from home in any industry that would allow it at the beginning of the pandemic, employers worried that it would lead to a drop in productivity. However, in many cases, the opposite proved to be true. Many employees actually became more productive, at least at first. In the following months, the actual problem with working from home has become abundantly clear: overperformance, leading to work-from-home (WFH) burnout. When you work from home, the natural boundaries between your workplace and where you relax begin to blur. On average, people who work from home actually end up working longer hours than their in-office counterparts for exactly that reason — they don’t have as good of an idea when to switch from “work mode” to “home mode.” There are many signs and consequences of WFH burnout. Some employees might experience overwhelming apathy toward their daily responsibilities and start to avoid their work, leading to declining work performance. Others might experience an inability to disconnect from their work, leading to outright exhaustion. Luckily, however, there are a few different ways to prevent WFH burnout, even as the pandemic keeps us working in our living spaces. First and foremost, maintaining strict physical and temporal boundaries between your work life and your home life is instrumental in preventing WFH burnout. Physical boundaries might include dressing up for your work hours as you would at the office, or just having a space that you only inhabit when you’re working. When it comes to temporal boundaries, keeping the standard 9-to-5 hours that you’d been used to at the office can also help prevent burnout. That way, you don’t end up working longer than you normally would. It’s unclear just how much longer workers around the world will keep working from home. So long as employees can identify burnout and put a stop to it, however, it shouldn’t be any cause for concern.
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