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The traditional 9-to-5 will transform into the 3-2-2 as more employees begin to enjoy and expect work flexibility, predicts Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans.
The 3-2-2 schedule balance traditional and remote work, where employees work for three days in office, two days remote, and two days off.
This structure allows employees to create schedules that work around their everyday lives, which has shown to improve job satisfaction, productivity, and attendance.
Thanks to the fantastic news that distribution of vaccines has begun, the end of the pandemic is in sight. Changes wrought by COVID-19 are nowhere near playing themselves out, however.
The challenges to mental health seem to have intensified, taking on newer forms in the course of the global contagion. This grave reality was highlighted recently in a survey conducted by an agency based in the United Kingdom, which found that almost 75 per cent of the respondents had experienced ‘Zoom anxiety’ a phrase used to describe the distress that is experienced while having to be part of video calls. This phenomenon is not restricted to the UK. The use of Zoom and other such digital communications by employers, political parties, educational institutions and countless individuals has soared across the world especially after national lockdowns were put in place to check the spread of Covid-19, forcing some constituencies of workers and students to work and study from home, respectively. But raising a firewall against threats to physical health has had adverse consequences for mental health. Earlier this year, researchers in Australia found that psychological suffering in