What Work-Life Balance?
The title of this article says it all: Three Hours Longer, the Pandemic Workday Has Obliterated Work-Life Balance.
While working from home, employees are spending more time tied to their work – on their computers, answering texts or Slacks, etc. Videoconferencing takes up an inordinate amount of the day, often filling eight hours, with work to still be done before, after, and in between.
Children are interrupting workdays, and parents can’t give their kids the attention they need – for school, for childcare, for lunch… – when they are being pulled into meetings and phone calls at all hours. There is no separation of work and home. And parents are now doing more than they ever did before.
What are you doing to help your workers keep a separation between work and homelife? How are you supporting them as their time and energy are being pulled in more directions than ever before? What are you doing to look after your own wellbeing and that of your family?
What can be slowed down, postponed, or just plain not-done? Are these temporary fixes (until when?), or could they be permanent improvements?