A Third of Korean Teleworkers Claim They Suffer from Work-From-Home Syndrome
If these teleworkers have work from home syndrome than the entire U.S. military needs to get diagnosed with this disorder because even when you are off duty you are still on duty. Maybe servicemembers can get an extra VA rating for this 😉 :
Three out of every 10 employees who telecommute are experiencing “work-from-home (WFH) syndrome” as the pandemic rolls on and the boundary between work and life blurs.
Korea Times
According to a survey of 910 remote workers conducted by recruiting platform Job Korea from Sept. 3 to 10, 32.1 percent of the respondents said they have experienced the WFH syndrome, experienced as physical and emotional stress.
Where multiple answers were allowed, 54.8 percent said they experienced the feeling that they were still working even after work hours, similar to 46.2 percent who answered they felt a nervous and stressed all day.
“In a from-home working environment, the physical distinction between work and home life is pretty vague. I think that’s why I can’t get my mind off of work even when my computer is turned off and feel like I’m working all day,” said a 28-year-old employee in Seoul who asked to be identified only by her surname Kim.
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WTH is wrong with Koreans? I worked from home for 3 years and never felt extra stress or that I was working all night (I worked off hours) I had a 10 foot commute to my desk, turned on my computer did my job, and turned off the computer to live my life. I also silenced my cell phone as the day shift would handle critical issues. The closest thing to a blur was having 2 computers in the house running if I happened to be using my personal computer for personal business but that was extremely rare.
All over a scamdemic.
Think it depends on one’s social circle (outside of work), and personality type, Doc.
People are social animals, I can see how it could be isolating and depressing.
Doc: The employers are requiring keyboard activity, they can’t sit around smoking and reading newspapers, can’t eat food the wife doesn’t approve, can’t flirt with girls on the bus/subway, can’t go out after work and drink too much soju, etc…
Liz, I agree. Korean office culture varies greatly. My previous quote was just based on the people I worked with in the late 90s. Obviously some things have changed since then.
2ID Doc, “working from home” while taking naps and watching netflix movies, like you did, isn’t as same as really working from home while being productive.
The unemployed homeless should be trained as construction workers on train bus stations and bridges.
Then they could work from home.
That would check a lot of boxes.
Korean Man, oddly enough I was supporting Korea & the rest of Asia during those hours. I only watched Netflix at the office, as that connection was superior.
On second thought, if folks are using uncomfortable chairs, bad posture, and a table at the wrong height, they could be experiencing serious physical side effects…
Source is CDC from a subject they actually took seriously at one point:
https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/health-strategies/musculoskeletal-disorders/index.html
Ha! My desk is right out of science fiction. It adjusts to any height from standing up to sitting down with some fancy digital display.
Of course it never changes… as I keep my àss perfectly parked in a chair that is equally awesome in its design and function.
The only improvement I could ask for is perhaps a bed that I could work from… populated with a couple of scrawny schoolgirls and a robotic arm that could remove any turds I might make.