'I believe that the family distraction presented by the new work-from-home reality is one of the most pressing management issues of the COVID-19 crisis.'
I ran on March 14, 10% of the nearly 3,000 people polled said they were distracted by their families.
What these intensive home-based ways of working are revealing with absolute clarity is something psychologists have known for some time — that. One of the ways executives typically manage their working lives, particularly when their identities of, let’s say, hard-hitting salesperson and caring father are distinct, is by creating boundaries between these two domains. They build mental fences between the two spheres, often facilitated by clear transitions and “rite of passage” activities.
With whole families quarantined, the boundaries for workers are dissolving. In place of two transitions , there are now multiple transitions . Each transition adversely affects concentration and productivity and, ultimately, creativity.Based on what I am hearing, executives are becoming more empathetic to these challenges than ever before. Issues ofhave, of course, existed for decades, but what has been lacking is the willpower to do much about this tension.
Now shorn of this team, thanks to varieties of quarantines, lockdowns, and work-from-home orders, executives are experiencing more viscerally the stresses and strains of the work-home challenge. That’s creating a sense of understanding and empathy that many executives had previously lacked.
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