Video: How people from different professions follow the government's recommendations to work because of the epidemic at home: Laughter vs fear
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A sense of humor is what helps us to overcome any difficulties in the most difficult periods of our life. This makes it easier for the body to deal with stress. It is nice to see that, against the background of the surrounding panic around the coronavirus, many do not lose this feeling. Yes, humanity is in a dangerous situation, but you can only win if you have not lost your presence of mind. This is how people of different professions reacted with witty memes to the fact that they were forced to work from home due to quarantine.
How difficult it was for representatives of some professions to move their workplace to their home, gave us a new meme. You can call the series of these photographs "Creative work from home".
As a result, a huge number of people joined this flash mob, offering their options for remote work. Many people did not manage to adapt to home conditions due to the specifics of their work. Photos from Uber drivers to archaeologists look very funny on the one hand, but on the other, they demonstrate the absurdity of the picture that is being created.
While it is impossible for many to make a living in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, they find the strength to laugh at themselves. Stanford University professor of economics, Nicholas Bloom, has written many books about working from home throughout his career.
Bloom even conducted research on the example of a large Chinese travel company. He spent two years studying the consequences. The conclusion was clear: working from home made the company's employees more productive and reduced the number of people willing to quit to almost zero.
“We in China did the following: we took one thousand people and asked them who would like to work from home. Of this thousand, five hundred volunteered. That is, exactly half of the employees would like to work from home,”said Professor Bloom.
“After the end of the experiment, many changed their minds about the work. Of these five hundred people, about thirty wished to return to work in the office. Working from home has had a great impact on the work of those employees in China who choose to work from home. They were 13 percent more productive than office workers. In addition, the number of people quitting smoking has doubled! Bloom adds.
However, now that the coronavirus pandemic is forced to turn office workers into remote workers, the professor is no longer so optimistic. He says: “I think that under the conditions created by Covid-19, this system will not work very well. Here's why: All of these people in the Chinese study volunteered to work remotely.
In addition, they did not engage in group activities, did not engage in work with people. They made phone calls, entered data. They came to the office once a week to coordinate. And it was good, it gave them some kind of connection with the work in the company. With the coronavirus pandemic, we have something that was not in my experiment: we have no choice. People without exception are forced to work from home, while in China only half of the employees wanted it.
The other half of the people didn't want to, saying that working from home is too lonely and isolating. Then, the intensity of labor is also very important here.
Therefore, I am convinced that coming to work at least once a week, depending on the type of activity, can be two or three - makes it possible to connect to the work process. Stimulates creativity. This encourages us to be ambitious and motivated. Working from home can be pretty miserable. Most people don't like this at all. From week to week, at home and at home."
The expert predicts that overall labor productivity will drop sharply. “I think that even when all of this returns to normal, it will still lead to long-term costs. Tragically, 2020 will be the year of lost innovation. If you look at this ten years from now, you see a real hole in new patents.
New products, new ideas and great inventions that simply did not exist in 2020-2021. Think about scientists and engineers. How can they work normally at home? They are being quarantined and I suspect that they will actually be, to put it mildly, not very constructive."
According to Professor Bloom, the main thing we can all do to counter this is to recreate social contact. The use of video conferencing would be ideal. This can be done in two ways. “For example, the entire group of employees meets for a thirty-minute video chat at 11:00 every day to just chat about this and that. No working conversations!
In terms of individual interactions, managers should spend at least ten minutes with each employee individually in video conversations. Every morning, every day! Yes, it is time-consuming, but it is very important to keep employees happy and productive over the next few months.”
For a much nicer flash mob, read our article a new flash mob was launched on the network - the dogs were lifted to the ceiling.
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