Employees and leaders have adopted practice as a strategy to escape work overload
After the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, many workers had to re-read the face-to-face routine. However, for Generation Z, this transition was even more demanding, because, unlike previous generations, they entered the labor market during the era of remote work, unprecedented experiences in the traditional corporate environment.
This led 36% of young employees to adopt a new strategy to face the return to the office: masking of activities. A tactic that consists in pretending to be superconocosta, without really being, to fill the free time that remains after doing the job.
Masking activities: the art of seeming occupied
The phenomenon has earned importance since companies require more time in the office, leading some employees to seek ways to demonstrate their value without necessarily increasing their true productivity. In fact, what is behind this practice is a deeper problem relating to time management, workload and corporate culture.
Returning to the office it has no impact on productivity. According to a recent survey of the HR Workhuman platform with three thousand participants in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, 36% of young people admitted to pretend to work when, in fact, they had already finished their work.
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Source: Terra
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