What is your transfer to the office like? Those people who live near their workplaces or can do work are few and almost privileged. home office. The vast majority allocates, in average 33 minutes of transfer, although a 28% have to travel 45 minutes. There are even people who travel from one to two hours by any means of transportation. In just one year, according to a study by the Ministry of the Environment, travel time in Mexico City and the metropolitan area, specifically, grew by almost 12 percent.
What are the repercussions of the eternal transfers to work centers? fed up, exhaustion, a good dose of stressannoyance, decreased concentration, energy consumption, the depreciation of equipment and infrastructure and the deterioration of human health.
This has a direct effect on productivity and satisfaction that an employee obtains in the performance of their daily work, and therefore, in the company’s results.
Sins of commuting to the office
Mexican workers who commute daily to their workplace identified seven problems that they face every day, causing them a generalized stress that negatively affects productivity and results they obtain in the performance of their daily work.
- Bad drivers or dangerous
- Pollution and overheating
- Aggressiveness on the road
- Interruptions and service delays
- Impolite behavior from other passengers
- Lack of information from service providers
- Very loud conversations of mobile phone users
We can all recognize our worst experiences in the results of this survey. Road aggression and dangerous driving are real concerns for both drivers and pedestrians, which is why these behaviors top the list. Not knowing about the interruption of services or traffic jams are also situations that undermine the possibility of a peaceful work day and productive.
Clearing roads and avoiding traffic sounds almost impossible, however, one option is satellite offices, flexible working, or making home officeand. Without a doubt this would reduce the statistics and with this there would be excessively positive environmental effects.
Could it be time to see flexible working as a socially responsible tool?
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