Employees Working from Home Are Putting in Longer Hours Than Before the Pandemic

数据显示，封城期间在家工作时间比平时更长

Enjoying more free time while working from home? Maybe not. New research conducted during the pandemic shows that home-working employees in the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada and the United States are putting in more hours than before.

 

在家工作的同时可以享受更多的自由时间？也许不是。在疫情期间进行的新研究表明，英国、奥地利、加拿大和美国在家工作的员工比以前工作的时间更长。

Home working has led to a 2.5-hour increase in the average working day in those countries, said NordVPN Teams, a New York-based company that provides virtual private networks (VPNs) to businesses.

 

总部位于纽约、为企业提供虚拟专用网（vpn）的NordVPN公司团队表示，在这些国家，在家工作已经导致平均每天工作时间增加了2.5小时。

The United Kingdom and the Netherlands stand out, with employees “working until 8pm, regularly logging off later than usual to wrap up an extended working day,” it added.

 

该公司补充说，英国和荷兰的情况尤为突出，员工“工作到晚上8点，定期比平时晚下班，以结束延长的工作日。”

 

However, employees in Denmark, Belgium and Spain initially recorded a spike in working hours but have since returned to their pre-pandemic timetable, NordVPN Teams said in a statement.

 

NordVPN团队在一份声明中表示，然而，丹麦、比利时和西班牙的员工最初记录了工作时间的激增，但后来又恢复了疫情前的工作时间。

NordVPN Teams, which works with more than 10,000 companies, looked at the amount of data being sent via servers to calculate employees’ working hours.

 

NordVPN团队与1万多家公司合作，研究了通过服务器发送的数据量，以计算员工的工作时间。

The company recorded “no significant drop of business VPN usage at lunch time indicating potential short lunch breaks while working remotely,” it added.

 

该公司补充道“午餐时间业务VPN的使用没有显著下降，这表明远程工作时可能会有短暂的午餐休息时间。”

 

It also noticed a 41% increase in business VPN server traffic on Thanksgiving compared with the average weekend, which the company says “suggests that people are spending their family time working.”

 

该公司还注意到，与平均周末相比，感恩节期间的VPN服务器流量增加了41%，该公司表示，这“表明人们把家庭时间花在了工作上”。

While server data can’t distinguish between work and personal use, NordVPN said it was confident its research reflects longer working hours.

 

虽然服务器的数据无法区分工作和个人使用，但NordVPN表示，它相信自己的研究反映了更长时间的工作时间。

Technically, somebody could perform personal tasks while logged into their business VPN, but we find employees usually treat work resources carefully and more often than not use them appropriately, Auste Valikonyte, a spokeswoman for the company, told CNN.

 

公司发言人Auste Valikonyte在接受CNN采访时表示，从技术上讲，员工可以在登录他们的业务VPN的同时执行个人任务，但我们发现员工通常会谨慎对待工作资源，经常会适当使用它们。

There are personal VPNs on the market which are typically used for personal purposes.

 

市场上有一些个人VPN，通常是为了个人目的使用。

Separate research from Wildgoose, a firm that offers virtual team-building experiences for businesses, found that 55% of UK employees say they have been expected to work outside their regular hours while working from home, and 74% have suffered fatigue, stress or burnout during the pandemic.

 

为企业提供虚拟团队建设经验的Wildgoose公司进行的另一项研究发现，55%的英国员工表示，他们在家工作的同时还被要求在正常时间之外工作，74%的人在疫情期间感到疲劳、压力或倦怠。

Wildgoose spoke to employees from 133 UK companies and found 44% said their workload had increased while working from home, and 31% reported an impact on their mental health, such as feeling depressed, anxious or exhausted since shifting to home working during the pandemic.

 

怀尔德古斯采访了133家英国公司的员工，发现44%的人表示他们在家工作时的工作量增加了，31%的人报告说他们的心理健康受到了影响，比如在疫情期间在家工作后会感到抑郁、焦虑或疲惫。

While we’ve all grown used to home working as the pandemic has continued, it continues to present huge challenges in maintaining the right work/life balance, Wildgoose managing director Jonny Edser said in a statement.

 

Wildgoose的总经理Jonny Edser在一份声明中说：“尽管随着疫情的持续，我们都已经习惯了在家工作，但要保持工作和生活的平衡仍然面临巨大挑战。”

 

With increased workloads and a worrying trend of working through sickness, people’s jobs are becoming ever more blurred with their home lives at a time when it’s crucial the two remain distinct from each other.

 

随着工作量的增加，加上人们带病工作的趋势令人担忧，人们的工作与家庭生活的关系变得越来越模糊，而工作与家庭的区别至关重要。

英文、中文版本下载：http://www.yingyushijie.com/shop/source/detail/id/2601.html