In 2022, the late spring cold of the epidemic made many people relive their home office experience. With less commuting distance and more free commuting time, it is reasonable to say that happiness should rise. However, recently, the topic of "why working from home is busier and more tiring" has been hot searched on Weibo Tens of millions of Netizens found that they were not the only one who felt more tired at home
Why do international companies such as airbnb successively announce permanent telecommuting, but we feel more busy and tired working at home? In this issue of tiger talk radio, the three anchors got together and talked about how happy home has become a workplace hell.
The workplace hell for young people begins with the collapse of the boss.
Recently, the news about the boss and supervisor has been exposed one after another, which can be called the best horror story of this summer.
Not long ago, an internal employee of an educational institution broke the news that after working at home, company asked employees to install computer monitoring software overnight and automatically capture images every 5 minutes. They must capture images 89 times a day, otherwise they would be absent from work**
If several snapshots are missed, employees will be deducted from their performance, and their leaders and HR will also be deducted. Afraid of missing the 5-minute screen capture time, some employees even dare not go to the toilet.
Some companies require employees to turn on the video conference function of office software all day, and assign special personnel to view the video screen online and supervise the work in real time. If you are found to have left the video screen for more than 20 minutes, you will be given a demerit warning or deducted performance.
As a result, the well-dressed workers in ordinary days lost all their manners this time. Some people were accidentally seen by their colleagues during the whole process of changing their pants.
In addition, employees are required to submit a "small times" every hour and hold three progress meetings in the morning, noon and evening... In imagination, home office is a reconciliation with traditional office, but in fact it has become a labor reform in online prison.
It is not difficult to understand the anxiety of the boss. The loses the sense of control and security brought about by the physical boundary of the offline office. The boss urgently needs to seek compensation in the strengthened management of the time boundary**
But what is uncomfortable is that this sense of security is at the expense of the freedom, civility and even privacy of migrant workers.
However, it is not the boss's fault to distinguish between public and private. After living at home, we workers are increasingly confused about the boundaries between work and life.
@Cucumber soda feels very tired at home and office. Because we need to pay attention to enterprise wechat for 24 hours, otherwise if we don't reply to the work news in time, we will be worried that we are not considered to be working well.
@Muzitong also found that the rhythm of home is like a vicious circle. During the day, I can't help playing around. At night, I have to spend time to catch up with the progress. As soon as I get to the late night, I open my eyes at noon the next day. The days that were not abundant disappeared half at once.
After a month at home, her total work output was one third higher than that of the previous month. But most of the work was done late at night. She was tired of watching Beijing at 4 a.m.
As @ slag County said, the sense of boundaries of work is disappearing in the home.
This is probably the biggest reason why we feel more tired at home than usual.
Before we stay at home, we imagine that we can save the commuting time. We can get up in the morning and eat breakfast gracefully, take a nap at noon, and turn off the computer at o'clock in the evening.
It turns out that living at home not only avoids the pain of "going to work", but also takes away our right to "go to work".
As soon as you open your eyes, you go to work. As soon as you get off work, you close your eyes. As soon as the computer is turned on and off, time slips away from your fingers for another day
Or maybe the elevator door opened and closed, and the day passed
People never learn to cherish until they lose.
Living at home, let us rediscover the advantages of many offices.
@Cucumber soda really misses the free water, electricity and air conditioning in the office and the big desk with one person:
"The house I rent is more than 50 square meters. My roommate and I have to separate. There is only one table suitable for working. We have to grab it. Evaluate who is more urgent and important today, and who is qualified to sit at the table to work."
There is also a dedicated atmosphere like the college entrance examination study room in the office. Listening to others' passionate dance with the keyboard in their ears is definitely more focused and efficient than being at home alone.
Sitting back-to-back in the same aisle, @ muzitong and @ zhazha County miss the days when they can talk to each other as soon as they turn their chairs.
What you want to say may not be very important. Maybe it's just some interesting and trivial things. "You can type online, but it seems superfluous to type specially. It's most appropriate to say a smile directly offline.".
@Zhazha County believes that although many people are tired of socializing in the workplace, it is undeniable that the workplace is the main scene for us to make friends after we enter the society. Home office has changed the workplace, but the total amount of work is still quite saturated. You won't have too much time to develop new social relationships because you are at home. At this point, workplace networking is particularly important:
"Connections at work are necessary, not necessarily friendship, but you should have some connections."
This perception seems to be somewhat contrary to the current international full-scale remote office process.
Recently, led by airbnb, many large companies around the world have successively announced the introduction of comprehensive or phased permanent remote office plans.
"Today's startups have embraced teleworking and flexibility, which I think will be the main way for all of us to work in 10 years. That is the direction of the world."
Brian Chesky, chief executive officer of airbnb, announced that the vast majority of employees of airbnb will be able to permanently work remotely without any pay cut
They only need to meet once every 90 days, which means that you can live anywhere you like in 90 days without meeting.
Google, Microsoft, meta and twitter are also enabling remote work plans. However, if employees choose to move away from the headquarters of Silicon Valley, they will face salary reduction. Because these companies believe that part of their salaries is a subsidy to the high cost of living in Silicon Valley.
Japan's Yahoo! And "Japanese idle fish" mercari have also successively announced that all employees are allowed to work remotely in Japan.
In order to support employees' long-distance travel, Yahoo also provides an allowance of up to 150000 yen (about 7700 yuan) per month to reimburse employees for long-distance commuting expenses such as planes, buses and Shinkansen**
In Portugal, there are even "digital nomadic villages" for telecommuting people. This village called "digital nomads Madeira" is located on a small volcanic island. It has beautiful scenery and is isolated from the world. It provides a shared workspace and free wireless network for the remote workers who come to live. At present, 3000 remote workers have been registered.
It seems that telecommuting has become the general trend. At least in those industries that have the conditions to implement comprehensive telecommuting, it is an economical and environmentally friendly choice.
As Yahoo President Kentaro kawabu said on twitter, "after dialogue and many surveys, 90% of employees said that this would not affect or even improve their work performance."
Many studies after the pandemic have proved that home office will not reduce the work efficiency of employees, but will also improve productivity.
A survey on the work situation of Britons during the epidemic showed that since they stayed at home, the working hours of British workers' daily screen increased by 2 hours, from 7 hours before the epidemic to 9 hours.
At the same time, after the elimination of the office, the company can reduce the rental cost, reduce a large amount of carbon emissions, and obtain excellent environmental benefits.
However, just like the extreme supervision cases in China, the international community is far from fully recognizing telecommuting.
A Microsoft study shows that more than half of business leaders want their employees to be in the office five days a week. Because they believe that only the communication between the two sides below the line can spark real creativity.
The guardian's findings prove this: Although telecommuting is in full swing on the surface, the occupancy rate of office buildings across the United States is soaring.
"Our occupancy rate has reached 95%, the highest in history." A New York office operator said.
Facebook rented another 300000 square feet of office space in New York City on its 3million square feet of existing space. Google spent $2.1 billion to expand its campus in Manhattan to accommodate 12000 more employees
It turns out that many bosses prefer to spend a lot more money and want their employees to go back to the office.
But anxiety is the nature of the boss, and fishing is the instinct of the employees.
Employees who have tasted freedom do not want to sit back in the cubicle.
A study by ADP Research Institute entitled "staff in 2022: a global labor perspective" conducted a survey of 32000 employees in 17 countries and regions around the world. It was found that 64% of employees said that if they were required to return to the office full-time, they would consider looking for a new job.
52 per cent of them were willing to accept a pay cut of up to 11 per cent to avoid returning to the office.
At the same time, the study also points out that telecommuting people are generally more satisfied and optimistic than their commuting colleagues
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A Gallup poll in 2011 also showed that 54% of the people wanted mixed work, 37% wanted to work completely at home, and only 9% wanted to maintain the traditional working mode.
Just recently, the United States Apple The company also suffered a storm of resignation because cook wanted to let the geniuses return to the office from home.
Strange to say, doesn't it mean that home is more busy and tired than commuting? Why do migrant workers still prefer telecommuting?
A recent Portuguese legislation may answer this question.
According to the latest regulations in Portugal, under the remote office mode, employers who contact employees outside office hours will face severe penalties, and the company must pay remote work expenses for employees who work remotely, such as higher electricity bills and Internet communication fees.
"Traditional office has the problem of traditional office, and telecommuting has the problem of telecommuting," said the Portuguese Minister of economy. "The pandemic has accelerated the need to regulate what needs to be regulated."
Supporters of telecommuting firmly believe that with the improvement of laws and regulations, the troubles of telecommuting will eventually become temporary pains.
More importantly, since everything during the epidemic has proved to us, a lot of work can be done without commuting. So why on earth do you have to go back to the office?
In the vast majority of work resumption notices, no one answered this question, and no one thought that this question should be answered.