Overlapping our roles in the office and home can be beneficial if it’s always done in a healthy and respectful way, not in an intrusive fashion, says Marcello Russo, Full Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Universita di Bologna.
and it’s rare for people to be able to escape work communications when at home. This boundary between our two lives is permeable.
The literature has widely shown that professional and private lives can be allies. When we experience positive emotions in one of our roles, it can influence the other. This concept of “work-family enrichment” invites us to integrate our different roles as much as possible based on the premise that they can benefit each other.A POST-PANDEMIC REALITY
Attending work meetings with the kids doing their homework on the same desk, sat on one’s lap, or preparing dinner while FaceTiming with a colleague has been normalised. Some people are quite reluctant to give this up. Not only does it make home life more manageable - some feel it is brought radical change and more humanity to the workplace.
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