Brief interactions she’d normally let go - a minute or two out of a 10-hour day - become opportunities for obsessing, “because essentially you’re at home looking at the wall,” Ms. Small moments are becoming amplified for Shireen Ali-Khan, 37, a consultant in London. Many are feeling a spectrum of new anxieties about their interactions with colleagues.Įmployees are asking themselves questions like: Is that Slack message unanswered because I’m getting fired, or because my boss is dealing with remote schooling her kid? Did that joke land flat on that video call because it was a bad joke, or am I falling out of favor? Estimates of how many office workers are projected to work permanently at home, post-pandemic, range from 20 to 30 percent, up from under 10 percent before the coronavirus.īut millions more Americans communicating completely virtually with their co-workers does not mean our emotional office dynamics have caught up yet to our new videoconference world. While some have returned to the office since last spring, a significant number have not. Those workers tend to be more educated and wealthier than workers whose jobs cannot be performed remotely, and low-wage workers have been much more likely to lose their jobs during the pandemic.
labor force working from home in the early days of the pandemic, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The number of people working remotely has skyrocketed since January 2020, with approximately half the U.S. “That’s when I got really suspicious, and the paranoia started setting in,” Ms. She heard another co-worker was laid off. Then the emails and chats from her co-workers slowed to a trickle. Nauwelaertz got left out of a strategy session via Zoom, and she only found out about it from her peers who had been included. But just a few days after the new manager started, “that’s when the feedback break happened.” Up until the new person started, “it was pretty smooth going for a long time,” Ms. She still had the same supervisor, but this new person was a layer in between them. Therese Nauwelaertz had been working in information technology at a large health care organization in Seattle for nine months when she got a new project manager.
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