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Nearly Half the Workforce Is Exhausted From Meeting on Camera
As employees continue to be forced home during the pandemic, nearly half of them are reporting high levels of exhaustion, a new study has found.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. March 1, 2021 – As employees continue to be forced home during the pandemic, nearly half of them are reporting high levels of exhaustion, a new study has found.
Many IT employees have been working from home for nearly a year now. And for some, fully or partially remote work will become the new normal. More than half (57 percent) of employees work from home now, according to a new survey of employers by Willis Towers Watson, and around two in five employees will still be working remotely at the end of 2021.
While this may be a welcome proposition for some tech professionals, IT leaders and managers may need to optimize the WFH proposition – for the betterment of the larger organizations and their team members.
“The biggest mistake that we saw in the beginning of the pandemic, that some leaders and managers continue to make, is to adopt a ‘copy and paste’ approach to managing their teams,” says Elizabeth Freedman, executive advisor and consultant at executive coaching and assessment firm Bates Communications (recently acquired by global strategy consultancy BTS). “They try to take what they did in the live world and apply it
As employees across Canada continue to be forced to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of them are reporting very high levels of exhaustion, a new study has found. The study was conducted by Virtira Consulting (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and revealed that 49% of employees experienced a high degree of exhaustion from being required or pressured to be on camera during online meetings.
Over 49% of those surveyed reported being exhausted due to being on a webcam.
The Webcam Survey: Exhausted or Engaged? provided insights from over 1,700 companies on the well-being of managers and employees about the direct impact that company policies have on the use of video during online meetings. The survey also examined whether other factors contributed to the high incidence of reported employee exhaustion. As businesses adapt and learn from the remote work experiment, many have implemented policies regarding remote work based on opinion rather than data – causing a negative impa
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