What Should You Do if You Cannot Disconnect From Work?

Did you know that dolphins live in two worlds at the same time? At night, dolphins keep one eye open and one side of their brain alert, while leaving the other eye closed and the other side of their brain asleep.

Humans spend the day switching between their personal and professional selves, alternating between screens, personalities and worlds. Back then, we can switch from work mode to private mode when we go home from work, but how do we do that when working from home?

There are two ways to solve this problem: 

• We can reconstruct and preserve the boundaries between the professional world and the personal world while maintaining particular openings between the two, or
• Promote better integration between the two worlds. 

Fused lives and crossed boundaries

Recently, the line between our personal and professional lives has blurred. In today's economy, workers are expected to be connected all the time. The Covid-19 pandemic has also erased any remaining separation. 

This research says that it is essential for our productivity and health to compartmentalise and delimit work and home. 

Another researcher describes the blurring of the boundaries between private and professional lives as "boundary-crossing activities," which leads to distractions, burnout and mental health issues.

Is there a way to tackle this phenomenon and create healthier work environments?

Solution 1: "Chop the pudding."

Managers are responsible for coordinating their teams' workflow, interacting with their employees, and providing the needed resources to establish physical and temporal boundaries between the employees' duties. 

• Create physical boundaries. Back then, putting on your suit and going to work signal a transition. Experts suggest creating "physical" boundaries between our professional and personal lives: getting dressed every morning for work, replacing our commutes with daily exercise, or creating a separate workspace at home.

• Respect time limits. Maintaining a routine work schedule can be challenging, especially for workers in charge of their families and work tasks. But without boundaries, workers will feel forced to overwork instead of setting and respecting working hours. Employers should set expectations with their employees, determine their time availability so they can be productive and still have a life outside of work. 

Solution 2: "Speed up the mix"

We can learn to function better by mixing working hours, restructuring work, improving communication, and reconciling personal and professional environments. 

Workers spend their day pretending to be several different people. But, all that pretending can make us more stressed. Most of us hide our true identities at work, which affects our physical and mental health.

In this solution, we do not try to show different personalities. We can concentrate on our essential duties during our most productive hours or have business meetings while we take a walk to enhance our creativity. 

We also check how we are and how our co-workers are doing while finding out the issues that prevent us from having a productive and mixed life. 

Many researchers agree that teams must have the right tools to manage their and their families' well-being. Now, well-being in its holistic concept has a determining role in the social context. 

Maybe one day, just like dolphins, we can learn to be present in two different worlds, such as wearing pyjama to make zoom calls. 

Source: Entrepreneur

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