At the end of February, for many of us, it will be a year of smart working. And we begin to make the first budgets for about the 6.58 million who were at home to work during the first lockdown, to then arrive at about 5.35 million current, as recorded by the data updated by theSmart Working Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano. An exponential growth for the work from home which mainly involved the clerical sector. We have gone from initial difficulties to confidently handling virtual meeting management and clouding software.
And inevitable with the era of smart working, new ones have also been born digital excuses.
THE MOST USED EXCUSES
The repertoire of the most frequent excuses is wide, all in line with our new normal. If the meeting, for example, doesn’t go as it should, it obviously is all the fault of the internet connection (66%), while to avoid answering a question point-blank, according to 67% of respondents to the survey, we use microphone muted. And then: i background noises they are always the responsibility of the partner in call (57%) or the poor neighbors intent on cleaning up or listening to music (43%). Not to mention the couriers: they always do the intercom when something important is about to start and obviously they make you late (24%). As even the most innocent, the use of unlikely backgrounds to hide the chaos in the apartment when making business video calls. A classic and discounted solution for 65% of the users involved. This is what emerged from a survey conducted among the Instagram community of Wiko, smartphone maker according to which 86% of respondents used more than one, while 42% confirmed that they used one of these justifications at least once to decline an online meeting or meeting.
ALL THE BEAUTY OF SMART WORKING
But while all this makes you smile, there is also a dark side to consider. If, on the one hand, technology has made up for the impossibility of being able to meet and assemble and offered the digitalization of offices, on the other it has expanded the temporal boundaries and the concept of “availability” therefore 43% of survey participants admit that they feel increasingly obliged to justify themselves if they do not immediately respond to an input. And this is an important point because it introduces the concept of endless availability, one of the disadvantages of working remotely.
Speaking of the advantages of smart working, however, there is certainly that of not having to go to the office in person and consequently being able to neglect one’s look, which is why 72% of respondents admitted to resorting to the ploy of keeping the camera off during meetings to avoid showing up again in pajamas or unlikely outfits. Although staying in your pajamas is still a bad idea if it is perpetrated as a habit. But yet, despite the apology, the data from the Politecnico show an important increase in the productivity of remote work. The challenge for the future will be to save “the good”, recovering their spaces and grasping only the positive sides of flexibility. Innocent apologies including.
In the gallery, Cecilia Sardeo’s 10 tips for effective smart working.
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