While the Covid-19 crisis has pushed millions of French people to work from home, the situation is weighing heavily on their morale and their professional life.
Almost a third of employees say they are close to burnout due to the health crisis (32%).
Without going that far, nearly three quarters of employees (70%) say they are anxious, according to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) carried out with the Ispos institute.
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One of the dominant feelings of this crisis is the reduction of the border between private and professional life.
Thus, 39% of respondents say they work at lunchtime, without taking a real break, more often than before the health crisis.
And 41% of respondents feel they have less time for themselves, while a third say they have a lot or a little more.
A majority also indicated that they spend more time doing household chores (50%), supervising children's school work (46%) or accompanying or picking up children (44%), tasks which are mostly performed by women. , recalls the study of BCG and Ipsos.
Almost half of men, however, say they do more tasks than before the crisis.
Short-term negative consequences for the career.
The survey reveals above all a disparity between men and women in the face of the health crisis.
The survey focused more particularly on employees in the private sector.
In the long term, women are less confident about their professional future.
Thus, 60% of women say they are confident compared to 70% for men.
Women are also penalized more than men for teleworking.
They are 1.3 times less likely to have an isolated telework space, and 1.5 times more frequently interrupted while working from home.
Women are also more likely to feel anxious (50% of men compared to 66% of women).
34% of women surveyed said they were on the verge of breaking down or close to burnout, compared to 28% of men.
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While 70% of all employees surveyed are confident in their long-term professional future, a third (33%) believe that the crisis has negative consequences for their career in the short term.
Regarding productivity, a third consider themselves a little or a lot more efficient compared to before the health crisis, while 36% think they are a little or much less efficient.
In this context, nearly half of the managers made sure to exchange more with their teams (49%), but these efforts are not always sufficient.
In fact, half of the employees questioned feel isolated from their colleagues.
Over the past two weeks, 70% of employees report having felt nervousness, anxiety or tension for at least several days.
(*) Study conducted online with 2002 French employees, including 1001 women and 1001 men, in the private and public sector, from January 29 to February 8, 2021.