BERLIN (Reuters) – Only 14% of European staff want to return to the office 9-5, and greater than half say they’ve grow to be extra productive as a results of working from residence, which has boomed amid COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, a survey confirmed on Thursday.
But “hybrid working” – a mixture of working at residence and at the office – additionally has its draw back, with over a quarter of respondents feeling like they work all hours or into the night time, in accordance to the survey commissioned by Samsung Electronics and the consultancy The Future Laboratory.
The survey of 14,000 individuals throughout Europe additionally indicated that 83% of staff have been searching for extra assist from their employers to assist steadiness their work and residential lives.
About 12% of employed individuals within the European Union normally labored from residence in 2020, up from round 5% earlier than the pandemic, in accordance to knowledge from Eurostat.
“With presenteeism now an outdated idea, employers want to consider carefully about how they meet the calls for of recent hybrid dwelling,” Benjamin Braun, vp for Samsung Europe, mentioned in a assertion.
Two-thirds of Europeans mentioned they’d made – or have been planning – residence enhancements to make hybrid dwelling simpler, for instance by creating office areas at residence, whereas 41% had determined to transfer home.
In the survey by the world’s largest reminiscence chip and smartphone maker, 51% mentioned know-how was serving to them set boundaries, for instance, by utilizing cell alarms or time administration purposes.
“We are probably to see tech stepping in to monitor our psychological well being and happiness as a lot as our bodily well being, with sensible gadgets changing into our wellbeing assistants,” mentioned Meik Wiking, chief govt of Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, which is collaborating with Samsung on the way forward for work.
(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Miranda Murray and Bernadette Baum)
