With what's going around with all the fear in people of the current situation, of not being able to effectively detox from work stress and any other stress, not being able to meet your friends and family, of discovering that few of the people in your circle are now a victim of this deadly virus you are already stressed, constantly anxious and going through depression as well and I feel that companies and bosses have failed to understand what might be the current mental state of their team members.
It's almost been 3 months since organizations started the WFH thing and as it has been easy and has alot of perks it is needless to say that it has been more difficult than easy.
Organizations and bosses have taken the term corporate slavery to a whole new level now.
Initially we used to call this a 9 to 5 kinda job right?
But now its 24/7.
In this transition to working from an office to working from home, there have been many complexities: logistics, habits, systems, communication, to name a few. But the most pervasive problem is the (mistaken) assumption that 24/7 working is fair game.
It has honestly completely blurred out the boundaries of home and office now. And that is wrong on so many levels.
Even though tasks are assigned and deadlines are set, you are EXPECTED to respond on all times of the day even if it is a GOD DAMN WEEKEND AND YOU WANNA SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY OR JUST YOURSELF.
Ideally when your team is working from home, you should expect that work hours are devoted to working and non work hour times are reserved for personal time.
And honestly your bosses are supposed to set that tone. But here it is quite the opposite. They expect you to work on weekends as well and okay I understand clients have asked for it. Then it is your job to push back and say it's a weekend any feedback given after work hours will be done later. You SET THE TONE & EXPECTATIONS.
With the current situation of people getting laid off of their jobs people are already scarred hence they comply to any unreasonable requests as well.
And even if you try to point it out subtly that 'Hey listen its a weekend this can be done on monday' you are either thought of as not a team player or too selfish.
I mean hell I sometimes even feel guilty for taking a day off on days I'm not feeling well.
And I'm sorry to say organizations are taking that as an advantage.
I know people who have gotten paycuts because of obvious reason and they are overburdened with the same amount of work. And they comply with those unreasonable requests thinking 'Yaar atleast job tou haina what if ye loag bhi employees ko nikaal detay.
People are genuinely scarred because for some their families are dependant on their income.
Organizations are denying their employees public holidays because 'Oh aap tou ghar per hi hain why do you need a holiday'.
And with the Corona Virus not leaving us any time soon and this work from home getting extended even for a year maybe I think all these organizations are just burning out their employees which might later on lead to alot of anxiety, depression and other mental health problems.
