Monitoring at work
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“ Recent insights from RingCentral ’ s Human Connection survey revealed that over 20 % of workers are less happy working now than they were before the pandemic . This ultimately leads to productivity being further lost due to absent employees , with poor mental health being found as one of the most common causes of workplace absence according to research from CIPD . It ' s therefore essential that fatigue in employees is kept front-of-mind by management teams , from both a personal and commercial standpoint .”
Monitoring at work
With an increase in remote and hybrid working over the past two years , demand for remote employee monitoring software has soared . One in three of the 2,400 workers polled by union Prospect reported being monitored at work in October 2021 , up from a quarter in April 2021 .
The four-day working week experiment A global shift over the past two years to remote work has led to something unexpected . In a number of industries , calls for a change to the standard five-day , 40-hour week grew after many companies began to rethink how work is done in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic .
A four-day week has also been touted as a way to reduce stress for remote workers . Despite initial concerns about workers ’ ability to remain productive at home , early indications are that the opposite is true : burnout is more an issue as employees work additional hours at home and struggle to switch off outside of the traditional 9-to-5 day .
“ An employee-led approach to how people want to work has been shown to be highly effective ,” Falk comments . “ Workers who are able to choose whether they want to work in the office , from home , or somewhere in between are happier , and more productive . In the future , could we all be embarking on a four-day working week ?”
Britain is currently host to the world ’ s largest experiment in the four-day working week , with more than 3,300 workers at 70 technologymagazine . com 67