In a recent global study by employee engagement platform Tinypulse, more than 80% of people leaders reported that such a set-up was exhausting for employees.
“It’s the psychological shift – the change of setting every day – that’s so tiring this constant feeling of never being settled, stressed and my productive home working always being disrupted.”Įmerging data is beginning to back up such anecdotal evidence: many workers report that hybrid is emotionally draining. “It involves planning and a stop-start routine: taking my laptop to and from the office every day, and remembering what important things I’ve left where,” she adds. Klara feels she now has two workplaces to maintain – one in the office and one at home.
“But by the evening I dread having to go back in: sitting at my desk for eight hours a day in a noisy office, staring at a screen, readjusting to exactly how it was before Covid.” “I feel settled and focused on the days that I work from home,” says Klara. "After years of full-time office work, it felt like I finally had control over my work schedule and busy home life.”Īs the months rolled by, however, the novelty of hybrid work soon gave way to hassle and a jarring one-day-in, one-day-out routine. “Having a permanent hybrid set-up initially came as a relief," says Klara, whose surname is being withheld for job-security concerns. Klara’s boss introduced the hybrid policy in September 2021, when UK government guidance recommending home working came to an end: Tuesdays and Thursdays would be home-working days, with the remainder of the week spent in the office during normal contracted hours. The account manager had initially joined her London-based firm on a full-time office contract, only for successive waves of Covid-19 to force her to work from home. When Klara was offered a hybrid working arrangement, she thought it would be the best of both worlds.
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