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Homeworking: Is it messing with your head?

31/07/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Homeworking: Is it messing with your head?

Why companies shouldn't give up the office just yet

Working from home could outlast the pandemic. But workers' experiences with homeworking in lockdown are not all positive. Manuela Saragosa speaks to some office workers who've struggled to adapt to home life, and to Dr Zofia Bajorek, research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies in the UK, who's been surveying workers on the pressures they've faced in lockdown. Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, explains why face-to-face contact is so important for innovation in the workplace, and why flexible working with a mix of office and home will ultimately make us all happier. 

(Photo: A woman works from home, Credit: Getty Images)

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