![]() ![]() However, a statistical increase in burnout rates and demand for psychotherapists speaks to the contrary. When working from home, work and home life responsibilities merge together, and breaks become longer. People used to use breaks to make a coffee, stretch their legs, or relieve themselves. Now, they use breaks to put in a load of laundry, help children with schoolwork, make their family lunch, and more. As a result, these breaks are no longer a treat, but rather even more work. Meanwhile, if a meeting used to result in leaving the computer to go to a meeting room, now meetings happen on screen and result in even more computer time. ![]() Throughout my work, I’ve found that people are spending much more time in meetings than previously.” – Katrina Osleja, Mg.Psych., Organizational Psychologist A growing trend – even before Covid-19 This may be an indicator as to why longer hours are being recorded. ![]() One important aspect to understand was if the changes in the productivity ratio are only due to the pandemic, or if there was already an observable change before that. To uncover this, we extracted the data from February 2020, right before the pandemic exerted impact on the working lives of people around the world. The productivity ratio from right before the pandemic was 80/17 – 80 minutes of working sprints followed by an average of 17 minute breaks. Knowing that the length of working sprints has increased since the study was first published points towards the tendency of longer work hours, and that the pandemic has accelerated the rate of this growth. ![]()
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