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employees are trying to turn the tables and take that power back at work. the global economy face is a bleak outlook. so could the balance shift to words, employers, global employee management and well being were rising for nearly a decade. but now they are stagnant, so what is driving unhappiness at work and what makes an ideal working environment? ah, the pandemic pushed companies worldwide into an unplanned experiment of remote working to keep businesses going off to strict safety measures were imposed. now that employees realize that working from home is possible, many are reluctant to go back to the office or at least not full time. around one quarter of work is globally would quit or start looking for another job if they were told to return to the workplace 5 days a week. that's according to a survey by a group of economists. the study also says work is would take

a 5 percent pay cut to keep the option of working from home employees and countries where commute saw a long prefer the remote working option in india. in china, for example, commute times average more than 90 minutes. almost double the length of us work is women who are more likely to be primary caregivers for children or other family members. valley working from home much more than men. another survey by microsoft shows that bosses on work is disagree about productivity when working from home, well, 87 percent of workers felt they worked as or more efficiently from home. 80 percent of manages disagreed. we've done our own little survey in the united states and tacky. let's listen to what work is there had to say. i think just in general, the topic of working remotely is really important in our culture right now because

a lot of people need flexibility to raise their children and to have healthy families. so i love the shift that's happened. and i also really like what i do, which is very one on one of course, but having flexibility, it's been critical to the stage of my life and being able to be a single mom. flexibility of working at home is great because you can play around with your time, but, but i really miss the other. the other part. so i, you know, i guess at this point i would have to be sort of a mix. but i wish it would be like 3 days in the office or maybe to out. i personally don't have any pressure to go back and i think it's been really beneficial to me. i think a lot of people feel that way. you know, i'm fortunate to be able to work from home and it's given my life like a bit of a better, a better boost in some ways because it's a lot easier to work. life balance is a lot easier to deal with where you're from home. yeah, i think the office is more comfortable. my house is close to my work, so it's not an issue. the working environment is important for work quality,

even if your salary is adequate, you will be unable to perform well if you're working conditions are deplorable. choice free shots done. i prefer working from home because i'm constantly on the computer. all of our meetings and discussions with colleagues and managers take place on line. i don't believe face to face work is necessary, at least not for a long time. it's not. it's not just about the workplace. workers are also demanding flexible working hours. a short work week is now being explored as the future of employee productivity. the 9 to 5 work day used to be a standard for all employees. now many countries like belgium, the united kingdom, iceland am sweden, are experimenting the 4 day work schedule. employees will work 4 days a week while getting paid the same, the same benefits, but with the same workload. joining me now from preston in the united kingdom,

as adrian writes, he is the director of the institute for research and organizations work employment at the lancaster, school of business and enterprise. thank you for joining the program. what do you think the biggest or more surprising trends you've noticed in the world of work since the pandemic started? i think the most important and meaningful change in the world of what is the difference in terms of why people work and how people are working. i think since they, upon barrick, obviously remain working in hybrid working has that has grown significantly where people are choosing to work in different ways after remotely or more often in a hybrid working environment where people are choosing to pop from home. and also pop from the office, but i think also real big change in the way people work. and what people want from work is to prioritize health and wellbeing and flexibility in the workplace. so

that might be working different types of ours to see and personal circumstances and really thinking casserly about issues. so she's been out stress and mental health and wellbeing working from home. and as you say, clearly has become popular with workers. but not all employee surely do want to work from home today. i mean, personally, i know i prefer that boundary between my work life and my home life. so of course, and obviously different employees have different sections done as well. it's really, really important in the world. the work must really important for employees is to think about employee and also work environments and work conditions that those personal circumstances and with the pandemic and returning to work after the time dummy. it was a lot more flexibility and people would like and to work much more on their own. so

it's about organizations offering that sorts of flexibility to personal circumstances. always thing the shift towards working from home across all sexes or does it tend to be more white collar workers? well, obviously it depends on the fact. it does depend on how and possible working from home a professional, affective base. so can be space. of course, people can work at home and more than say, in retail, off the policy and those types. but i think also what we're seeing is that changing modeling sense of businesses and what they're offering, what that digital infrastructure is becoming in place where organizations are offering different options and not just working from home or working in the office, but also the actual home different environments that people can come to work in different places at different times. yeah, that's an interesting point. that's as technology improves that is clearly becoming

more and more of a thing. i mean, tell us a bit more about it. so what we're seeing prior to the panoramic to assess the next 10 posts on mac, is the rising digital infrastructure. why rogan nations and using digital technology to connect employees in different ways and in a physical context. these are the things like working space as we should be in a dramatic rise over the past 5 to 10 years, but certainly them it. but also organizations and large organizations. thinking about physical proximity in a different way. and for example, having office hopes in different fifties where employees can connect to where removing employees from what with one physical, one office workspace to of variety of different approaches. in order to me, the different need to employees and stay flexible. we've talked a lot about what employees want, what is it? the employees want, all they resisting?

especially now that the pandemic is over. the whole working from home concept i think working from home requires employees to have a different mindset. it requires trust and to a certain extent, required to release control from how traditional work was done within organizations and a different style of management. so that for buses and employees really need to think about how they can be flexible and change their approach to management aid in order to get the most out of the workforce. but crucially, also provide the workforce and with the right thing by that they that happy with because we've seen individuals and employees and really considering that place in work and what they want from work and employees have to with that, what about the notion of the 9 to 5 work day or 5 day week, is that going to become a thing of the past? i mean, i know we have some countries or, and experimenting on the 4 day week. yeah. so i mean, companies really looking at modernizing,

how working and we need to modernize and i think we need to look inside the job rather than face, you know, focusing on conventional ways of how we understand work and how we understand the traditional working week. you mentioned companies such as uni, leave here with that straight can mean business tockets alongside dropped enough to them and stress and helping tend to work life balance as well to be seen. really strong evidence from companies like unit labor but also concrete across the world. and suggesting it's really countering to suggest that longer working out can increase productivity. it doesn't seem to be like that. we've also seen a more e commerce on the rise social media has created a new world of jobs like influences and so on. what does that mean in terms of the future of the workplace, the future of jobs? well, school change always implement grades in the nature of work. and what we're seeing

at the moment is another example of buying the labor markets in the market to, to adapt and with employers. for example, what's really interesting and there's, we're seeing a kind of a workplace in the intersection between white work and what the legit sign more broadly. it's another example of profile. yeah, i want pinocchio create forms that really and embrace that digital workplace context and think about why thanks a lot to be changing towards work. and so i expect of basically the sorts of things to be on the rise companies using influences more and more and embracing influence in their marketing budget. so these types of work isn't going away and it's how we have that organizations deal with. adrian stay with us, i'm going to come back to you in a 2nd while some companies have accommodated the remote work option. many others have dug in the heels, but with

a shrinking job market. in some countries on the changing world of work, bunny young employees are rethinking how they want their career to fit into their lives. they're demanding more pay, but working conditions and they're willing to walk away if their demands are not met. employees left the workforce in record numbers in the united states in europe and asia, leaving millions of positions unfilled last year. the trend with dubbed the great resignation. another phenomena that was on the rise is quite quitting. the town describes workers who only do the job that they're being paid to do. just meeting that job description without taking on any extra duties in order to focus on time spent outside the office. and an unprecedented number of people have changed jobs since the start of the pandemic in what's being dumps the great re shuffle. so adrian young employees, as we were hearing that known as generation, the all the main driving force behind the new workplace trends. why do they feel

particularly more empower than employees of the past? will of course maybe we've got really strong labor markets and a really strong position for young workers. in many ways. genocide is different. they probably face to face communication, that tech savvy. they see diversity is the norm and really have a focus on the mental health and wellbeing and, but also alongside that, right? so we want good pay and go prospect and organization talk to react to this app that prioritize and the desires of these types of work. you know, to be competitive in the labor market, offer flexible work, clear development pathways and those sorts of things like that in the past struggle between employers and workers who currently has the upper hand. currently industry relation is a really interesting area for examination. and we've got the u. k. really high profile examples where he's fighting back whether it be intended to industrial

action such as the royal male or trained strive putting barracks to be been involved in industrial disputes. but alongside that, we've got all that ways to things that you mentioned before, the quiet quick thing and the great resignation. and people are really thinking casually about that job roles and what instruction day was to have with work. and all of these things highlight to type of resist in the changing rhetoric in the power between work and organizations and work for employee employees have to respond poor pay stress now manageable workloads in order to set and re day that relationship between organizations in the workforce and historical women have always lived behind men, haven't they, when it's come to pay or progressing their careers? is this new generation of women in the workplace changing related to switching

jobs to the highest rates and, and, and shifts right. we said women and looking at different ways in which you can get meaning from their work. but i think it's important to point out that women are roles already. you know. oh, so, and under represent the leadership and still experience my progressions and gender equality. and tackling equality is still a huge challenge for the global workforce. and they still attend to pay gap, which is related to economic, cultural, social, and educational factors. and some and organizations where they need to go start thinking about flexible work and how much jobs in their organization is dominant dominated by males pay discrimination. sorts of things to tackle, gender equality and more broadly. and audit and support women in

the workplace really need to think about how it tackle issues like can be utilized . ation is skills or downward occupational ability. for example, when women i'm attending to work up to having children. so lead as managers really african catholic, sends a blind management processing policy to support women in the workplace. a lot of economies around the world are starting to flow down. recession is being so cost for 2023. couldn't economic downturn shift the balance back to employees? i think the answer to that really is 3 to be expensive, which cannot make. flo will take place whether it's a significant or drastic flow down, or whether it's something which is a little less the less and work is the temporary economic play down what really change the way that what we're seeing is really big shift in the way where the no garage or interacting with each other. the rule is though an economic slowdown will

change that power relationship between organizations and work. and it will be really interesting thing to monitor as we go through the next couple of years. as i say, what we know is how long the down thing will be, and books, it's likely to have an impact on where it's fighting back. if, if that continues to experience it in visible conditions. i didn't really get to talk to. adrian writes, director of the institute for such into organizations, work unemployment at the lancashire school of business and enterprise. thank you for your time. thank you. the, whether it is remote working or an office space job and the cough any thriving business is productive employees. career experts estimate the more than 40 percent of workers would lower their productivity standards in a toxic work environment, while at least 12 percent would leave that job due to toxic work cultures. employee

disengagement cost. the global economy was 8 trillion dollars. that's 11 percent of g d p. according to the american analytics company, gallup anthony. the pump is a reset scientist on associate the department of behavioral and cognitive sciences at the university of luck. somebody joins me now from lux back. thank you for joining the program. doesn't really matter that people are happy at work. thank you for the information and yes, it does matter. as matter of fact, when you are looking to have a job, we reduced actually a large part of our life, us work. so it is important to work because then if we have any thoughts on our general well being, then i think from the perspective of an employer or perspective of a manager and also very important because that positive consequences, for instance, we know that we're being at work increases productivity. we also know that happy workers, they're more likely to cooperate and they'll select that quick. and last but not

least, it is also very important from the perspective of policy makers. but, you know, governments now are considering taking well being as a goal on its own. so definitely when being at work. and i think what we do in general is actually very important. according to pretty extensive survey done by gallup, they found the job. unhappiness is at a staggering old time high. why is that? that's actually a very good question. i think what we are doing in our research is to try to understand what are the determinants of hadnot. that's where it, you know, in general so that we can understand what's happening today. and we bill, for instance, that one of the most important determinants of well being at work is just to curity . and as of today we are in a situation where job security is on the right, or we are more and more afraid of losing our job. so this might be one of the reasons why we have this increasing trend in job satisfaction. and i think it is

worth mentioning is the impact of working africa and they make that working was associated with decreases in happiness. this is what we have with my team that we're still 100 and some with economy. so this cost is you know, more security, all 3 working than mike all contributes to reduce what being at work today. what about pe and room renumeration? where does that fall in the happiness criteria of work is what we discovered and even more interesting, from my perspective. as that money don't matter as much as other was thing before. job insecurity, or it doesn't matter as much as having a good balance between your personal life and your working life. so definitely, and i re matters but not as much as its author characteristics. it's not uncommon to see people accepting a pay cut when the change of job because the new job is more in terms of working

time or because the job is more interesting. so definitely can bolton. but it's not the most important characteristics. anthony, we've been talking on this program about the whole phenomenon of working from home that's taken off since the pandemic started a work is that work from home? move productive because they are happier. it's actually a very good question because i think what we, what we learned from our research is that the effect of working is very complex. sensitive. before the pandemic, they were really papers, you know, frank, understand whether working from home was making workers happier and more productive . and before the pending these papers were pretty positive. they were saying that you're working from home. it's more happy and makes more productive. but then we thought about this with my mother in law sandburg and my colleagues that the economy. and we started to think that maybe this affects the positive effect of stated working. my 3 depend on the context and this is why we look that date out at

the beginning of the probably 900. and then actually we found stated working at the beginning of the time it was negative on average. and this is not surprising because with colby, the many people were false to that work and was not the choice and not have adequate equipment to efficiently work from home. and when we're talking about to the working group, and then it works off to think about loc downs. and so the fact that you had your children and you have your family that go home. and you can also exercise after, you know, after day, often working well just at home. so i think the effect of working on happiness at 1st is very complex since you came and then when it comes to productivity. well, with the university of rochester, we collected a survey very recently about your opinions of thousands of work or about for the tv . why is that working? and actually only 25 percent of them consider that they have been more productive, thanks that they work. so what you will tips to both employees and to managers for

what makes a happy workplace? well, i think i think it's a mix of small and big things. i'm thinking about the case of stated working, for instance, i think at the manager level, it is very important to value your teams efforts and, and make them understand that what they have been doing. you've actually valued because you know, when you are a worker and when you're working from home, you don't have connection. we don't manager, you don't have this connection. we just seem as much as you used to have it in person. the way it comes to working. i think really bearing in mind that the efforts of your team are valuable is something that needs to be that manager needs to bear in mind. another thing i think that's important is to respect, you know, the boundaries and thinking about that a working. for instance, if you are working in a team and you have a very important to stand and it's a pm 5 pm, you know, outside of regular working time, i understand that sending the man will someone help you sleeping better because

you're going to get rid of the burden of sending the mail, but we today we have this technology that allows us to program sending, sending of an email. so if you want to write an email outside of working time, then you can just program it and make sure that it's since the morning after so that you don't put the weight on your team. so read very small efforts, the small things to have creating a think, what it can be happy and safe workplace. the interesting you talked about technology does as it is, it's technology making. people be advancing technology, making people happy at work it's. it's a tricky question because i think, i think on one side, we can definitely set this technology on making us more productive. that that is for sure. and for me i'm, i'm thinking no person example being, being a researcher, technology have me every day, i can connect to the insurance, wherever i am, i can work almost wherever i am. that is not a problem. and this really contributes to my husband. that is for sure to know that

i can, i can just work for the world. but at the same time, it's also important to have good practices and to put boundaries when it comes to technology. because you should synchronize your phone, you know, with your personal phone, with your professionally males, then you never really disconnects. would work really good to talk to anthony la punter, reset scientists, an associate the department of behavioral and cognitive sciences at the university of lex. meg, thank he, thank you very much. that is all so for this week get in touch with us by tweeting me at, mullin, site and days the hash like a j c t c. when you do drop us an email, counting the calls to al jazeera dot net is our address. as movie online on out is there a dot com slash ctc, all websites that will take you straight to our page, which has individual report links. and in time episodes for you to catch up on that, is it for this edition of counting the cost i money in site for the whole team.

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