"It happens to me to dream of work, to think about files in the middle of the night, that I forgot to treat such and such thing ...". If you recognized yourself in this sentence, it is because like Matthew, banker, your work has interfered with your personal life. According to a Ifop-Mooncard poll released on Wednesday about mental workload and its implications for executives' private lives, 95% of them think about their work at home in the evenings.
"Even on vacation, I had to stay reachable"
But sleep is not the only area to be nibbled by work on rest time. "Frequently on Sunday, during my morning jog, I think a little bit about everything I left unfinished during the week," he says. "Even on vacation, I needed to be reachable, normally a time for relaxation and mental escape." In the age of hyper-connectivity and business emails that follow us into our bedroom, disconnect is not an easy task.
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Thus, eight out of ten managers feel that they have more tasks to perform than before. Professional smartphone or laptop directly provided by your employer are the royal ways to allow your work to enter your living room. "We are often tempted to look at his emails, his messages, etc.," confirms Marie, who sometimes finds herself answering emails at 11pm. If she is aware of not being "in a normal situation", she "does it anyway": "we can not get disconnected," she admits.
A phenomenon that affects both public and private sector executives, even if the first are 90% to complain about this situation, against 80% for the latter.