The trend of flexible working has become more realistic during the past years, especially in the circumstance of a pandemic that triggers an unavoidable remote working from home.
Despite on-site or off-site working templates, a sign of burnout can exist at all times, and that you might encounter one already.
Burnout is well-recognized as a state of exhaustion in which directly arising from prolonged work-related stress. It is known to cause several physical and mental conditions, for instance,
- Depression,
- Anxiety,
- High blood pressure,
- Heart disease,
- As well as weakening your immune system, which is quite important for your sustainable wellness.
This article will help you identify signals which indicate that you are currently facing working stress during your remote working alone at your residence. Although you might currently living with it without noticing it today!
To diagnose the burnout signs that you might experience without knowing it during your remote working, below are some of the symptoms that you might currently encounter in your daily work from home life.
Feeling So Tired Even in the Early Morning
“Woke up in the morning and still feeling like the day collapses?”
Here we go! the first sign of work from home stress is triggered.
Having enough sleep at the end of a long day is always recommended. However, you might be questioning that despite already having sufficient sleep for several nights (for instance, 8 hrs of sleep each night), and still feels like it cannot generate enough energy for your next day?
This is not a common sign of a healthy lifestyle and that something should be corrected.
Chances are that you are facing a situation of fatigue, which might be a direct result of your work-related stress on a daily work-from-home basis.
Feeling Alone and Lacking Inspiration
“Has your email’s inbox begun to fill up, while your desire to respond to those email drops? … and that we suddenly wondering to do everything except those piles of work lying on the table?“
This reflects the sign of work-from-home burnout.
By experiencing the burnout feeling of your jobs as gradually stressful and frustrating of your work-related tasks which make you unable to be productive at work.
Physically and Mentally Exhausted
“Numerous conference calls coming in and you are dragging yourself to attend those calls? … Feeling drained, unable to manage, and so tired of your work?”
These signs often show lacking the energy to accomplish the work.
Working from home can be a very good source of stress producer and that by leaving such exhaustion to continue can significantly leading to a long-term physical and mental illness to your health.
Reduced in Working Performance
Burnout significantly affects everyday tasks at work and you often feel negative about those tasks, which might lead to a stage of overthinking.
Chronic stress from working that results in burnout do changes the functioning of our body and that inevitably affects our ability to think, learn new things efficiently, giving a proper reason, or focusing on single attention.
Having difficulty concentrating on the work definitely impairs the ambition and responsibility of your daily tasks, as well as reducing your motivation to create high-quality work as well.
Excessive Behaviors
Some people express their burnout through excessive behaviors, for instance
- Feeling hungry all the time and was ending up eating too much every day,
- Residing to alcohol or other substances,
- or even over-exercising which you had never done it before.
If you are experiencing these habits, chances are that you are facing a dominant sign of work-related stress in which in no ways would be healthy for your life in the long run.
By noticing your unusual negative habits distinctively from your normal routine, the more early to cope with it, the faster chances that you can bring back a healthy lifestyle to yourself.
Lacking Confidence, Over Thinking in Everything
Having to work without others can be a blessing or a curse, depending on whether you are more of an introvert or an extrovert person.
However, when a situation getting real that there are no longer physical conversations with all the other people surrounded by your familiar office environment, feeling a distance from the other and being alone all-day-long in your residence can become toxic to yourself.
These loneliness feelings might trigger the sense of lacking a supportive environment, especially when you are working remotely and that certain problems are arising, you’re alone in the isolation of your home office to deal with the impact and was required to sorting out a solution by yourself.
These situations can inevitably lead you to a negative habit of lacking the confidence to solve and deal with future problems.
You might start to become consistent in overthinking when newer problems are arising in the future and no longer having confidence in your solution to solve such problems.
Key Takeaways:
Chronic stress and burnout might further lead to physical symptoms, such as headaches, internal organs issues, or the body’s immune issues.
If you are experiencing any of the sign of work-from-home stresses above and was asking yourself whether can I find a solution? We recommended you to check out our article on 90 minutes to help you increase your productivity in 2021 which will provide you with small and easy tips for you to boost your days.
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