BySiddhi Jain
May 12, 2020 (IANSlife) Many of India’s formal-economy workers have spent the past eight weeks working from home, and according to a new survey by IBM, over half of the remote workers want to remain part of a new remote workforce.
“The forced shift to operating as a largely remote workforce has led to nearly 40 percent of respondents indicating they feel strongly that their employer should provide employee opt-in remote work options when returning to normal operations. And remote work appears to be growing on people, as more than 75 percent indicate they would like to continue to work remotely at least occasionally, while more than half - 54 percent - would like this to be their primary way of working,” the IBM study, which had 25,000 respondents, said.
If the nature of your work demands your return to an office space, or if you just cannot wait to transition back to usual routines, here are suggestions that can help you mentally prepare for resuming the work-from-office lifestyle.
“We are facing an unprecedented time in our history and therefore with it, it was natural to feel emotions of anxiety, stress, fear and a general feeling of helplessness. Many clients are sharing their inability to balance their household and work duties. What was easy earlier is now difficult and giving rise to short tempers, obsessive and worrying thoughts about their present and even the future transition to the new normal,” Mayuri Sangharajka Jhaveri, Psychologist and Head, Mpower Cell Management told IANSlife.
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