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with hello, i'm money inside. this is counting the cost on al jazeera, your weekly look at the welding business. economics. this week, working from home office or a mixture of bosses in walk is differ of the future as to what place is remote working here to stay and all companies ready to make that shift. also, this week, employees are trying to turn the tables and take that power back at work. the global economy faces, oblique outlooks, a could the balance shift to woods, employees, 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, if 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 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 indian 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. and now the survey by microsoft shows that bosses on work is disagree about productivity. when working

from home, while 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 that 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, doesn't tell us we thought we then shall 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 would work 4 days a week while getting paid the same, doing 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 very obviously remember working in hybrid working has that has grown significantly where people are choosing to work in different ways of them 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 are working a lot people. one from work is to prioritize health and wellbeing and flexibility in the workplace. that might be working different types of ours to see and personal circumstances and really thinking casserly about excuse. 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, do they? 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 seconds down as well. it's really,

really important in the world of work really important for employees is to think about backing up areas chloe, and also work environments and work conditions that those personal circumstances and with the panoramic and returning to work. after the demi it was a lot more flexibility and people would like and to work much more on their own terms. so it's about patient suffering that source of flexibility to personal circumstances. always thing the ship towards working from home across all sexes or does it tend to be more white collar workers? well, obviously dependent on the fact it does depend on how and possible working from home a. so certainly in professional factors affect the baseball can be of course people can work and more than say in. ringback retail, hospitality,

and those types. but i think also what we're seeing is a change in modeling sensitive 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 environment. people can come to work it 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 step 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 contact. these are things like working space is just being a dramatic rise over the past 5 to 10 years time 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 even moving employees from what with one physical, one, office workspace, 2 and variety of different approaches in order to meet the different needs to employees and stay flexible. we've talked a lot about what employees, one, 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 truss and to a certain extent, quite a release of control from how traditional work was done within organizations and a different style of management. so that 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 we also provide the workforce and with

the right environment that they, that happy with. because we seem 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 focusing on conventional ways. that's how we understand work and how we understand the traditional working week. you mentioned companies such as uni, leave here with demonstrates can meet business targets alongside dropped enough to them and stress and helping tens that work life balance as well. so we've seen many strong evidence from companies like unit labor, but also companies 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 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 workplace, the future of jobs? well, school change always implement craze 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. my work and what's the leisure time? and 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 latitude changing towards work. and so i

expect obviously the sorts of things to be on the rise companies, they using influences more and more and embracing influence in their marketing budget. so these types of work isn't giving away and it's how we adopt the 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, many young employees are rethinking how they want their career to fit into their lives. they're demanding will pay better 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 dumped the great resignation. another phenomena that was on the rise is quite quitting. the term

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 empowered than employees of the past? will of course we've got really strong labor markets and a really strong position. young work is in many ways, genocide is different and they probably face to face communication that tech savvy . they see diversity is the norm and really have a focus on the road, mental health and wellbeing and but also alongside that, right? we won't good pay and go prospect and organization talk to react to this app that

prioritize and the desires of these types of workers. 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 really interesting area for examination. and we've got the u. k. really high profile examples. work is fighting back whether it be intend to industrial action such as the royal male or trains try putting barracks to be been involved in industrial disputes. but alongside that, what we've got all the 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 interaction day was the word. and all of these things highlights a type of resistance in the changing rhetoric in the power between work and

organizations and forces and employee employees have to respond poor pay stress now manageable workloads and all that set and re day that relationship between organizations in the workforce and historical women have always lived behind. men have ne, when it's come to pay all progressing there. chris, is this new generation of women in the workplace. changing elite is, is switching jobs to the highest rates and, and, and rightly so, women are looking at different ways in which they 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 inequality is still a huge challenge to 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 still start thinking about flexible work and how much jobs in their organization is dominated by males pay discrimination. the sorts of things to tackle gender equality and more broadly, and audit and support women in the workplace. really need to think about how we tackle issues like can be utilized. ation is skills or downward occupational ability. for example, when women returning to work up to having children. so leaders and managers really african catholic blind management processing policy to support women in the workplace. a lot of economies around the world are starting to flow down recession . it's been full cost for 2023. couldn't economic downturn shift the

balance back to employees. i think the answer to that really is to be, to be an expense in which the economic slowdown 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 for some work in the temporary economic flow down. what really change the way that what we're seeing is really big shift in the way where the no garage places are interacting with each other. the roof 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 said, what we know is how large downtime will be, and books some likely to have an impact on where it is fighting back if, if that continues to experience it in hospitable conditions. i didn't really get to talk to. adrian writes, director of the institute for such into organizations, work unemployment at b, lancaster,

school of business enterprise. thank you for your time. thank it. the. whether it is remote working or an office space job and the course 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 with 8 trillion donors. 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 luxembourg. he joined me now from lux back. thank you for joining the program. so 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 lucky enough to have a job, we do start actually

a large part of our life work. so it is important. yep. yep, work, because then if we have any thoughts on our general well being, then i think from the perspective of an employer or the perspective of manager and it is 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 are more likely to cooperate and they also expected to quit. and last but not least, it is also very important from the perspective of policymakers to governments now are considering taking well being a goal on its own. so definitely with 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 bad? 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 know, for instance, that one of the most important determinants of being at work is security. and as of today we are in a situation where the job insecurity 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 and we're still hungry and some price with economy. so this cost is, you know, more insecurity or to the working the mike or contributes to reduce well being at work today. what about pe and room renumeration? where does that fall in the happiness criteria work is what we discovered and even

more interesting, from my perspective, as that money don't matter as much as i was saying before, job insecurity or 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 of the author characteristics. it's not uncommon to see people are being paid when the change of job because the new job is more people in terms of working time or because the job is more interesting . so definitely important. but it's not the most important job characteristics. anthony, we've been talking on this program about the whole phenomenon of working from home, but it's taken off since the pandemic started 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 already papers, you know,

understand whether working from home was making workers happier and more productive . and before the pending, the 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 team that i'm bringing my colleagues at the school, the economy. and we started to think that maybe this affects the positive effect of working. my 3 depend on the context and this is why we look that they get out at the beginning of the call, 100. and then actually we found updated working at the beginning of the time they make was negative on average. and this is not surprising because with covey, that 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 tele, working during your time, then it starts to think about lock downs. and so the fact that you had your children and you have all your family that to go home. and you can also exercise after, you know, after a day off the working well,

just at home. so i think the effect of working on happiness 1st is very complex sense. 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 the 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 or 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 is 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. so when 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 very much. another thing i think that's important is to respect, you know, the boundaries and thinking about that working for instance, if you are working in a team and you have a very important to stand and it's a pm or 5 pm, you know, outside of regular working time i understand that sending the mail will somewhat 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 like, sending over 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 sent the morning after so that you don't put the weight on your team. so it's very small efforts, the small things to have creating a think, what it can be happy and safe workplace. so 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 say that this technology are making us more productive. that that is for sure. for me, i'm thinking a person example being and being a researcher and technology help me every day. i can connect to the insurance, wherever i am, i can work almost wherever i am. that is not a problem. this really contributes to my husband. that is for sure to know that i can, i can just work for where in the world. but at the same time, and it's also important to have good practices and to put boundaries when it comes with technology. because if you synchronize your phone, you know, with the all your personal phone with your professionally mail and then you never really disconnect with work. really good to talk to anthony upon, to reset scientists and associate the department of behavioral and cognitive sciences. a beat of us if next. thank you. thank you very much. that is all

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