Since COVID-19, telecommuting has increased. Before COVID-19, telecommuting took place in some industries, including the IT industry. Recently, telecommuting has been taking place in many fields as they come to the office.
A series of surveys and studies have shown that office workers who work in a “hybrid work” that combines commuting to work and home are happier, healthier, more motivated, and more productive. They say that “hybrid work” is a good “win-win” for both the company and office workers.
According to the Guardian, a British daily newspaper, on the 16th (local time), a survey of 1,026 British office workers working in hybrid workplaces (IWG) showed that working at the same time brings a wide range of benefits to office workers in terms of overall well-being, including lifestyle and stress levels.
In the survey, 79 percent of the respondents said they had less severe fatigue from work while working from home. Some 78 percent and 72 percent said they had less stress and anxiety, respectively. Some 68 percent of the respondents said their overall health has improved. Some 68 percent said their sleep quality has improved. Some 58 percent and 54 percent said they could prepare healthy meals and exercise more, respectively.
Eighty-six percent of the respondents said they had improved their work-life balance and seemed to be coping better with the difficulties of daily life due to increased free time due to reduced commuting time. In addition, 76 percent of the respondents said they became more motivated to work due to hybrid work, while 74 percent said they had improved productivity. Eighty-five percent said their job satisfaction has increased since the adoption of hybrid work.
The results of the survey are also consistent with the research paper of Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, published last week in the scientific journal Nature. Professor Bloom, who has studied telecommuting, said in the paper that a survey of 1,612 employees of a Chinese technology company found that hybrid work increased employees’ job satisfaction without affecting productivity.
Hybrid work has also reduced the resignation of women, non-manager-level and long commute employees by a third, Bloom explained. Bloom added that there have been 395 cases in which managers who were initially negative about hybrid work have changed positively since the implementation of the system.
Dr. Jen Reimer, a future work expert at the University College London (UCL) Business School in the UK, said these findings clearly indicated that “the most desirable benefit for job seekers is a flexible working system.”
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SOPHIA KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
