Berlin.
The corona pandemic has turned the world of work upside down. Home office has many advantages. But now the disadvantages are also becoming apparent.
If the word weren’t so worn out, one would have to use the first Corona year as a turning point for our working world describe. The virus disrupted the way we worked together. The classic work week, where you start together on Monday morning and go to the weekend on Friday afternoon, is finally history. And it will not return, even if the pandemic is over worldwide.
That home office has clearly made the world of work more flexible. It saves travel expenses, office space, agonizing hours in commuter traffic and, in some cases, a lot of money for childcare. These advantages must be taken into account when judging the new world of work.
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Working from home also has many disadvantages
And yet: In addition to the advantages, the home office has many serious disadvantages that are gradually creeping through. There is a creativity that springs from unplanned encounters that home office are no longer possible. The informal exchange at the desk, while going to the canteen or over a beer after work.
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Especially in companies that team spirit and live creativity, without this exchange, potential and thus sales are lost. The bond with the employer also dwindles if the only access to the company is to open the laptop. At some point it doesn’t matter whether you log into company X or Y in the morning.
And the home office increases loneliness in a society where more and more single people live. Anyone who can hardly leave their own four walls runs the risk of becoming mentally ill. And that’s a lot harder to cure than the flu you might catch from a colleague at the office.
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