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Research throughout the pandemic has demonstrated that employees are struggling to switch off at the end of the working day. As more people now work from home, where employees have set up make-shift desks in their kitchens or in a corner of their bedroom, many are blurring the lines between work and home life and as a result aren’t fully disconnecting at the end of the day.
Research released by NordVPN found that employees are now putting in an extra two hours of work a day as a result of remote working, meanwhile in January this year a study of 2,000 offices workers by the charity Society For The Protection Of Animals Abroad (SPANA), discovered that four in 10 adults cannot stop working.
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As the lines between life and work continue to blur, a German word helps to show us the importance of disconnecting from work at the end of the day. Known as ‘Feierabend’, the word has two meanings according to the BBC who spoke to Christoph Stengel, a 41-year-old Berliner who works as a software developer at price-comparison website Idealo.
He said that the word means the moment you stop working for the rest of the day, and that that is a good feeling. He also shared that it means it’s the second part of the day between work and going to bed.
