Digital fatigue: how to identify it and what effects it has on work

Digital fatigue: how to identify it and what effects it has on work

More and more people are working from home, however this can have negative consequences. I know what the experts say.

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From the pandemic many companies decided to spend much of the workday by way of remote. Although this is comfortable for many people, it can have side effects negatives on employees.

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Digital fatigue: a growing problem

According to him report from ‘The state of burnout in tech’ made by the company weedin 2022, two out of five employees of the industry Technologies of the Information They’re in risk high of fatigue labor.

According to the data, extracted from the survey carried out on 36,000 workers of 33 countriespoint out that the 62% of the employees affirm feel physical and emotionally exhausted and indicate a clear difference of gender. This is because there is more women (46%) exposed to a high degree of fatigue that the men (38.2%).

According to the US public health agency CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Spanish) the fatigue it is like “the feeling of exhaustion, tiredness or lack of energy”, and he points to work as one of his most common sources. In this sense, the WHO identifies the work fatigue with the freak occupational called burnout which, despite not being a medical condition in itself, constitutes a syndrome resulting from the stress in it instead of job.

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What does it feel like when you have digital fatigue?

On the other hand, the document prepared by weed mention four sensationsdescribed as the four ghosts of work fatigue: emotional and physical exhaustion, professional inefficiency, distrust and impersonality. Some of the causes, points out Yerbo, are found in the volume of jobthe need for deliver the task done within a period short of timethe Extra hours and the absence from a place to recuperate physical and mentally.

As a solution, there are those who, like the Forbes Business Councilproposes the use of applications electronic and thus make “the professional day-to-day life less stressful”. However, there is data that point to that path it’s a mistake: according to RedRexthe number of times per day that workers alternate between Applications and websites It amounts to 1,200that is to say, four hours to the week and five weeks year. It is a habit that, according to psychologistsends up generating stress long-term.

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