Digital tools, allies or adversaries of workers? According to a study conducted for Dynamic Workplace and Speak & Act and carried out in partnership with Herman Miller, the Île-de-France Region, the European Hospital of Paris and the INSEEC MSc & MBA and Bachelor, they made life easier by 91% of respondents before the pandemic. This rate fell to 60% during confinement. The fault of companies ill-prepared to switch to 100% teleworking and the omnipresence of applications in the private sphere. This drastic drop illustrates very clearly the concept of mental burden, which Éditions Tissot, specialists in labor law, define as "
all the demands of the brain during the performance of the work.
Mental load results from a complex interplay of individual, technical, organizational and social factors
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60% of employees stressed by work
Teams, Cisco, Slack, Skype for Business… For 12% of respondents, digital tools have even become synonymous with intrusion.
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46% of employees attest that 'urgent' situations and emails have increased compared to the pre-crisis period
". All this poisons 60% of them who often say they are stressed by their professional activity, it is twice as much as before the crisis. They think about it and check their emails more before going to sleep. 73% of those questioned indicate that they get down to work on weekends, against 60% before confinement. But talking about it within the company is still not easy: they fear the eyes of others, the brake in their career and even of being considered as the source of the problem. However, employees recognize a support effort compared to two years ago.
Obviously, we are not all equal in the face of this boring mental load.
In the regions, two-thirds of them manage to reconcile professional and personal life, against 39% in Île-de-France.
In addition, women are more prone to stress: they have twice as many sick leaves for professional reasons than men.
This is four times more when we compare women managers with children compared to men in the same situation.
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Fortunately the subject is taken seriously by young people.
Thus, 68% of the students questioned would not apply in a company which does not invest much in the quality of life at work.
How to reduce the mental load according to them?
Thanks to horizontal management, friendly services and activities within the offices and a healthy atmosphere from an ecological point of view.
To the best of my mind ...
