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How To Protect Your Brain When The Office Is Dying
A review of a recent survey by The Conference Board-and some brain-based suggestions for optimizing your brain in a hybrid environment
Is hybrid work here to stay? And what are workers saying about this? These all important questions, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, seem to have caused significant polarization among companies, with some companies going fully remote, while others are completely back to the office or at some stage in between.
On December 2, 2021, The Conference Board published a survey of more than 1,200 US workers to determine the finer details of what lies behind personal preferences, as well as the stressors that have arisen in tandem with the this deliberation. In this piece, I will reflect on the psychological ramifications of these findings.
Key findings from the survey were:
- PEOPLE WANT MORE MONEY: Better pay and career advancement remain the top reasons for changing jobs, according to 37 percent and 31 percent of respondents, respectively.
- PEOPLE WANT FLEXIBILITY: Among workers who quit during the pandemic, a quarter did so for the ability to work from anywhere.
- OLDER PEOPLE WANT FLEXIBILITY EVEN MORE: Despite decades in the office, Baby Boomers are quitting for the option to work from anywhere — and at…
