Zoom
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and Google
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meeting invitations are inundating workers’ inboxes. Employees, eager to show how engaged they are in their work, are firing off emails and Slack messages at all hours of they day and night. Nevertheless, managers rarely feel that their staffers who work from home are being as productive as possible.
Only 12% of managers say they are fully confident about their team’s productivity with hybrid work, according to a new survey from Microsoft
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Compare that to the 87% of workers who say they are productive when working from home. Just under half (49%) of managers with a hybrid work team said they struggled to trust that their employees were turning in their best work, versus 36% of managers with in-person teams. The divide is fomenting a “productivity paranoia” that “risks making hybrid work unsustainable,” researchers said. Read: Companies win when employees are in the office, but threats, orders and mind-numbing work won’t get them back The findings, released this week, relied on poll responses from 20,000 people across 11 countries, as well as LinkedIn data and information distilled from Microsoft 365, which includes Microsoft Outlook and Teams. If company leaders want to keep employees from jumping ship — and many surely do, considering the tight labor market — the researchers advised them to clearly establish priorities for workers to lessen the risk of burnout.
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