CHAPTER 10
3 Tips to Avoid Work-from-Home Burnout
by Laura M. Giurge and Vanessa K. Bohns
In 2020, millions of people started working from home for the first time, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Not surprisingly, this has made some employers concerned about maintaining employee productivity. But the bigger risk with our new ways of working is a longer-term one: employee burnout.
The risk is substantial. The lines between work and nonwork time and space have been blurred in new and unusual ways, and many remote employees—especially those who worked from home for the first time during the pandemic—likely struggle to preserve healthy boundaries between their professional and personal lives. To signal their loyalty, devotion, and productivity, they ...
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