A study reveals that people who work from home show
lower rates of stress and burnout
Teleworking, increasingly through technological development seems to be the best remedy against stress and burn worker's syndrome or burnout. This emerges from a study by a group of researchers from the School of Business at the University of Durham (UK) to be presented today in the British town of Oxford.
According to research, based on responses from 749 employees of UK firms related to knowledge, as consultants, financial services, media, 43% of workers who perform work from home claimed to suffer stress due to employment, vs. 65% for those who perform their work in the office.
However, teleworkers are concerned in general about the risk that remote play work will mean a loss of job opportunities to be disconnected from the area where decisions are made.
In any case, the study reveals a clear link between teleworking and welfare of workers.
"At least in the case of those working in companies based in the
knowledge, operating from home is an antidote to the stress of the office, while it may be at the expense of lower levels of development
professional, "said Tom Redman, lead author of the study.
