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 named syndrome or burnout. This emerges from a study by a group of researchers from the School of Business at the University of Durham (United Kingdom) to be presented today in the British town of Oxford.
According to the research, based on responses from 749 employees of UK firms related to knowledge, such as consulting, financial services, media, 43% of workers who perform work from home claimed to suffer stress from work, compared with 65% for those who are active in the office.
However, teleworkers are generally concerned about the risk of remote play work would result in loss of employment 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 enterprises based on
knowledge, work 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.
