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Novartis home office employees who are stressed out by Zoom will soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief. The Basel pharmaceutical company Novartis is considered a pioneer when it comes to allowing home offices to be allowed at an early stage. Since the first wave broke in March, about four out of five Novartis employees in Switzerland have been working from home.
This affects nearly 10,000 employees at the Basel headquarters, who have since had to videoconference at their headquarters. Apparently that got on most people’s nerves, as the “Tages-Anzeiger” reports. To make work at home more bearable, the group has prescribed two weeks without video conferencing.
“In order for employees to start the new year full of energy, a free session will be introduced in Basel from January 4-8, 2021,” said Novartis spokeswoman Anna Schäfers. Including company holidays from Christmas to New Years, this is about two weeks without Zoom video conferencing.
Novartis boss is also “super tired of zooming”
The workforce and management seem to agree with his zoom fatigue. Zoom fatigue is also said to have crept into the boss. Group leader Vas Narasimhan (44) says he set up his home office in his son’s room. This is because your wife is already at the head office. She is also in the central office.
“I’m also super tired of zooming in,” Narasimhan said this week at a lecture given by the European Institute at the University of Zurich. Now you want to end your home office frustration with new ways. An experiment consists of turning off the video camera and communicating only by sound. The other “solution”: a time completely without conferences.
Do a good job in your pajamas
According to experts, video conferencing can be extremely exhausting, especially since there is a lack of variety and movement. It is also more difficult to draw a dividing line between work and private life.
We still need to communicate, probably more and more by phone and email. So you don’t always have to sit well dressed in front of the screen at home, like someone is about to arrive. You can also do solid work relaxed in your pajamas. (kes)
