According to a Monster.com survey, 51 percent of respondents admitted to experiencing burnout while working from home.
It turns out that ditching the commute and working from home in your sweats is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Juggling your work and home life, Zoom calls instead of in-person meetings and possibly parenting and home schooling kids, it’s no wonder Americans are exhausted.
In fact, in a recent Monster survey, 51% of respondents admitted to experiencing burnout while working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Their home, which is normally a sanctuary and place to rest and relax with family, has instantly morphed into their office,” said Vicki Salemi, a Monster career expert.
That’s despite taking breaks for self-care throughout the day: 71% of those surveyed said they were stepping away from work for things like walks or spending time with family.
The culprit: a lack of structure and routine to your work day, Salemi said.
On top of that, we are isolated from those outside our immediate family, facing uncertainty about our health and the status of the virus, and parents are parenting all the time, added licensed psychologist Melissa L. Whitson, an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
There is also financial anxiety. While those working remotely still have a job, as opposed to the more than 30 million Americans who have filed unemployment claims since March, there is the threat that they, too, could lose their paycheck or have their salary cut at some point if the recession continues, she said.
“There is still that, ‘I need to work while I’m making money now and also to show that I am a good employee so they keep me on,’” Whitson said. “There is that added pressure onto it.”
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