Pandemic, virus, 40. Smart working, Zoom meeting, stress.
They are some of the keywords that have accompanied us for 2 years and from which we would like to move away at great speed in favor of a renewed lifestyle.
What, however, does the search for a new normality mean?
Covid-19, due to possible long-term side effects from a clinical point of view, does not appear to be less in terms of impact on the wellness People.
The experience of this long period of pandemic teaches us, in fact, that the unprepared response to an event of global proportions has contributed to the increase in levels of stress that still today require a strong commitment to restore a good balance between life and work.
It is undeniable that, at first, the possibility of working directly from home represented a pleasant news: the possibility to rest longer in the morning, the comfort of not having to face city traffic, the apparent feeling of being able to enjoy family spaces and reconcile personal and professional needs.
In this way the living room has become the office, the kitchen the corner of coffee, the family the moments of leisure and distraction from work and, vice versa, the work the escape from everyday troubles.
This new custom, imposed by the health crisis, soon gave way to the total absence of borders: when does the working day end if there is no detachment from the office and the working environment?
Let's talk about a situation experienced by the most: the request by e-mail to answer after dinner, the support for children for the tasks during the day and the postponement of that important document to end at a time when, generally, we used to devote ourselves to relaxation.
Slowly, without real awareness, the exception has become the rule and has led us to a situation where personal life has become confused with professional life and vice versa.
Stress levels have increased, problems related to the absence of sociality and the lost freedom to move and, with them, a new awareness: the ability to set boundaries and separate personal and professional life is the most powerful means of a renewed balance.
Equilibrium that needs to be sought and found consistently with the current and the changing situation, in which organizations will probably have to increasingly manage a hybrid scenario.
It is clear that the new life-work balance requires the integration of the benefits that have led to the management of work in smart working associated with the undeniable need for social relations that each of us strongly needs.
We must work on balanced formulas that support people and bring you a good climate within the Organizations, that foster flexibility and orientation to objectives: the care and development of Human capital they are the beacon to face the new scenario and make themselves distinctive in the market.
Today, we have the opportunity to write a new story and to observe a better panorama, strong of the experience matured and of the awareness that every moment must be taken at the moment in which you live it.
The pandemic took a lot away from us, but it also taught us the same: know how to grasp and analyze what lived is the key to building a renewed wellbeing.
