We are in the middle of August and we are still stuck in the office, behind our computer while everyone has gone to take it easy on the beach. Spending the summer at the office is not always super fun:no one answers the phone, we receive automatic email replies telling us that our correspondent is on vacation and worse, we have to endure vacation photos, advertisements on holidays and beach weather. Everything is there to dampen our morale. However, a study carried out by Bird Office, the Airbnb of meeting room rentals, shows that there are not only disadvantages to not being on vacation at this time.
Nobody in transport, or on the road… no more compression against your neighbor in the morning in the metro or endless traffic jams in the evening, so you are less stressed by transport. Then, as there is no one in the offices, not even the boss, 70% of respondents take longer for the lunch break and 46% manage to leave earlier. The pace of work is also lighter, the atmosphere more relaxed, 39% of them find their boss cooler and 45% admit to not doing much... In the office, as at home, we take the opportunity to sort, read emails that we have never opened, move forward on projects that we had dropped but also chat with our colleagues and even organize ourselves to see them outside (between the last survivors at the office, we understand each other …). In addition, in September, it is on the beaches that there is no longer anyone, the tickets are cheaper, so it is in our best interest to postpone the holidays and leave later. In the meantime, we avoid social networks so as not to look at photos of friends on the beach and we take our troubles patiently!
