According to the report “Labor Trends Index 2022” recently released by Microsoft. Latin America is the region where more workers changed their priorities in the labor aspects of life after the pandemic.
Chart of the Day: Change in post-pandemic work priorities
About the study
The study uses the collected data by research firm Edelman Data x Intelligence. In a survey of more than 31,000 employees and freelancers in 31 countries.
For a large number of people, the last two years involved reevaluating the place that work occupies in their lives. As well as begin to pay more attention to the balance between the world of work and private life. A topic often underestimated in Latin America.
And curiously, according to the results of the survey, at least seven out of ten respondents in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. They consider that after the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more likely to prioritize their health and well-being above work.
In other countries, respondents said that the pandemic did NOT disrupt their work priorities
In other regions of the world this proportion is much lower. In Europe and Oceania, for example. Less than half of the respondents they said the pandemic messed up your work priorities to pay more attention to wellness.
While relatively more people than in Latin America said just the opposite. Still, the study notes that more than half of workers globally have a new equation. As for what it’s worth.
More often after several waves of contagion and periods of isolation. Work is seen as just a part of life. In which health, family, time and a sense of purpose take a more important place.
How many people worry about their health since COVID-19?
72.4 percent of the people are more concerned about their health since the pandemic began of the coronavirus. According to the latest results collected in the ‘IV Barometer on the Self-care of the Spanish population’ made by PiC Solution.
In fact, people have become aware not only of the transmission of Covid-19. But they have made sure to keep a more exhaustive control of their health levels.
Thus, 45.3 percent controlled the temperature more (this being a possible symptom of Covid-19). 26.1 percent weight (obesity being associated with a prognosis of the disease). And 23.2 percent of those surveyed stress (hypertension being a risk factor).
On the contrary, 33.4 percent say that they do not care about their health levels.
Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are the ones who most say they wear a monitoring your body temperature since the start of the pandemic (54.7%). While from the age of 55 onwards the percentage who say they take it from your weight and stress. In this way, among those aged 65 or over, 38.9 percent say they control their blood pressure more thoroughly and 32.5 percent their weight.
One way or another, The pandemic has caused society to be more empathic. As well as being more aware and more responsible both for ourselves and for those around us.
In fact, about 40 percent of people claimed to be more concerned about the health of their relatives (because they are close to people at risk). And about 50 percent for both your own health and that of yours.
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