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For workers, panic-induced work at home is a double-edged sword. They appreciate the peace and quiet, but they skip the breaks and are always available. The losers of the crisis are women and health workers.
Stress, the little influence on the working day and the lack of support for continuous training are the most common complaints in the workplace even in the year marked by the Covid 19 pandemic, as shown by the “Good Work Barometer” presented this Thursday by the trade union organization Travail.Suisse.
More peace and quiet at home
In addition to the peace and quiet, home office employees appreciate the fact that they don’t have to travel to work. While one in three people was still dissatisfied with environmental influences at work in 2019, it is one in four on the 2020 Barometer.
On the other side of the coin, there is constant availability and breaks are lacking. In this context, Travail.Suisse reminds you of the employer’s duty of care, also in the home office. And the right to be inaccessible is needed.
The losers of the crisis are women
The biggest problem is stress. More than 40 percent of respondents often or very often feel stressed about work. For most of them, this is a heavy burden. Forty percent say they can hardly determine their working hours for themselves. Almost half consider employers’ funding for continuing training insufficient.
During the pandemic, working conditions continued to deteriorate at the expense of women, is another barometer finding. While in previous surveys women rated their workplace 1.6 to 1.8 index points worse than men, this doubled to 3.3 to 3.8 points in the context of the coronavirus.
The higher burden was mainly reflected in occupations with a high proportion of women, such as retail, social services and health care. The health sector was the only sector that received worse marks than in previous years in all areas. For Travail.Suisse, better working conditions for health workers are urgently needed.
Better internal communication
The barometer also registered a positive evolution. Internal communication improved during the pandemic. Therefore, the changes have been announced on time. The information provided to employers was evaluated as honest and reliable. In addition, the work decreased despite the illness.
Travail.Suisse has been collecting the barometer together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences since 2015. About 1,500 employees from all regions of Switzerland are surveyed. (SDA)
