55.3% of the respondents bluntly said that working from home has the problem of blurring the boundaries between work and life

　　Sun Shan, reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily

　　Intern Xiao Pinghua

　　With the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the form of online office is becoming more and more common.

This kind of office model that breaks time and distance saves working people from commuting time and makes work more free, but at the same time, the problem of blurring the boundaries between work and life will also arise.

How can we improve the efficiency of working from home?

Recently, a survey of 1,504 respondents conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and the questionnaire network (wenjuan.com) showed that 69.9% of the respondents suggested improving time planning ability and self-control to improve the efficiency of working from home. , 62.9% of the respondents suggested to try to keep the same time as going to work.

　　Among the respondents, the post-00s accounted for 18.6%, the post-90s accounted for 49.4%, the post-80s accounted for 26.5%, the post-70s accounted for 4.7%, and the post-60s accounted for 0.9%.

55.3% of the respondents feel that working from home has the problem of blurring the boundaries between work and life

　　Zeng Li, who works in human resources in Hangzhou, said that he can still complete his work while at home, and he will not be affected, but he feels that working online has reduced work efficiency, and "working at home may be lazy."

　　"When working from home, I have to think about cooking, and I have to stare at my children from time to time to see how the online class is going, and I feel like I have no skills." Liu Yan, who works in Beijing, recently worked from home, although it saves commuting time , but she feels that she needs to handle a lot of housework at the same time, and her work efficiency will also be affected, and she often feels tired.

　　The data shows that 35.0% of the respondents feel that the work efficiency of home office is higher than that of offline office, 42.8% of the respondents feel that the efficiency has decreased, and 22.3% of the respondents feel that there is no change.

　　Zeng Li's main job is to communicate with people through the office phone. During his stay at home, the lack of an office phone brought some trouble to his work.

　　Feng Nan, who works in an Internet company in Beijing, said that since the epidemic prevention and control, he has had several experiences of working from home, and the company also allows employees to bring their work computers home.

Feng Nan felt that working from home often made him feel less about getting off work. "In the past, leaving the company meant getting off work, and you could get away from work. Now working from home feels like work and life are intertwined. Sometimes watching dramas at night, Suddenly receiving information that needs to be processed will feel a little life-threatening.”

　　Xiao Zou, who works in an advertising company in Shanghai, feels that although his work can be done online, he will also encounter some difficulties in the process of working from home.

"For example, there is a lack of face-to-face communication. For example, when working in the office, if there is a need to communicate, you can communicate face-to-face. Working from home requires coordinating each other's time, and work progress may be affected."

　　In addition, Xiao Zou feels that if he lacks a certain degree of self-control, he may eat irregularly during home office.

"When I work in the company, I will go to dinner with everyone when it's lunch time. But when I work from home, I may keep doing it because my work is not finished, and I miss the meal time."

　　Regarding the inconvenience of working from home, 55.3% of the respondents think that the boundaries between work and life are blurred, and 53.7% of the respondents think that work is easily disturbed.

Others include: decreased communication efficiency with colleagues (52.5%), insufficient office hardware facilities (51.8%), prone to procrastination and laziness (43.2%) and lack of team atmosphere (32.3%).

69.9% of respondents suggested improving time planning and self-control

　　"Without the atmosphere of everyone working together, working from home may lead to distraction or decreased efficiency." Feng Nan felt that working from home was a test of self-control.

In order to make working from home more efficient, she deliberately packed out a small desk at home to help her work better. "Before I start work every day, I will spend 5 minutes making a schedule, and I will List the tasks you are working on, and set an estimated time for each task, so you can prevent yourself from procrastinating.”

　　Zeng Li thinks it is very important to combine work and rest when working from home.

"To concentrate on completing the work, to complete the daily work goals, but also to ensure rest."

　　To improve the efficiency of working from home, 69.9% of the respondents suggested to improve time planning ability and self-control, and 62.9% of the respondents suggested to try to keep the same time as going to work.

　　"In the past, in order to supervise my child's online classes, I handled work next to her, but I found that it affects each other. Now I will work in the next room, and when I finish a job, the child also arrives at recess, and we will communicate again." Liu Yan feels It is important to maintain a relatively independent space. Even in the bedroom, try to separate the office area from the rest area, so that you can concentrate more at work.

　　Feng Nan feels that working from home also needs to change the way the team communicates. Too much or too little frequency of meetings and contacts is not good.

"Although mobile office devices are becoming more and more abundant, meetings can be held at any time, but if the meeting efficiency is not high, it will waste a lot of time to hold meetings for the sake of meeting. However, if there is a lack of communication between team members for a long time, or just simple work tasks Docking may make employees feel that working from home is tedious and even lacking in work motivation.”

　　To improve the efficiency of working from home, the respondents’ suggestions include: creating a relatively independent work space (56.7%), improving infrastructure such as network and software (46.7%), not wearing pajamas and other home clothes (40.0%), and regularly interacting with the team Members keep in touch (33.7%) etc.