A stroll lot of love for daily walks
EMPLOYEES have revealed the little tricks that help get them through the working week – gallons of tea and daily walks.
Other aids to maintaining a healthy work-life balance include early nights, a gripping TV series or a good book, a survey found.
Some 1,500 adults were asked what keeps them going in their working lives.
A staggering seven in 10 feel their current week is a drag. In all, 28 per cent of respondents rated both a daily stroll and plenty of cups of tea throughout the day as essential pick-me-ups.
Just over a quarter relied on a must-watch TV series.
Comfort eating chocolate biscuits was the main thing that helped 19 per cent reach Friday evening unscathed. Other fatigueb-usters include early nights (25 per cent), planning a weekend liein (23 per cent) and a cracking read (18 per cent).
Positive
The research, commissioned by Microsoft, revealed 14 per cent like to schedule in a power nap after lunch during their working day. Others enjoy sweating it out at a gym (14 per cent) or arranging a weekly call with their mother (13 per cent). Two-thirds thought they did not have a good work-life balance.
Kate Wright, of Microsoft, said: “As millions of Britons continue to adjust their lives to an evolving new normal, the research shows that many of us are hoping to hold on to some of the positive habits we’ve fostered in lockdown when it comes to a work-life balance.”
AS WE emerge blinking from confinement, many are commenting on how the pandemic has changed our habits. And in a few respects it has – we apparently now drink more tea, take more power naps and head out for more strolls.
A survey assessing the “new normal” has shown that people working at home are now sleeping after lunch and eating more biscuits – little pleasures that have helped us through the dreary months.
Which begs the question: when offices spring back to life, will they have to include more beds?