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4. How to reduce stress factors generates obstacles. A work rhythm based on
urgency and hyperactivity, a strong feeling of
for my team accountability or the confusion between the
work environment and the life environment:
multiple sources of stress specific to remote
work have emerged.
Managing is first and foremost about
managing the well-being of your team
In this new hybrid context, a good manager
must be able to mobilise resources to identify
the new forms of stress that can impact
teamwork. He or she must be able to rethink
the way work is organised and managed. As a
manager, your key role is to evaluate the work
of your teams as well as to ensure their well-
being. This chapter gives an overview of how
Stress at work has been a known issue for you as a manager can manage stress in your
years. But with the advent of teleworking, it team in a hybrid environment and cope with
has exploded, with many consequences for the new challenges of our paperless work
workers' health. According to the INRS (The environment by addressing the following
French National Institute for Scientific topics
Research), stress is a survival mechanism that
is put in place "when a person feels an - how to know if my team is stressed
imbalance between what he or she is asked to - how to counteract the stressors
do at work and the resources available to meet
it". - how to check with my team how they are
feeling
Stress and its impact on teleworkers
4.1 How to find out what common
Labour sociologists agree that stress is both a stress factors are present
good and a bad thing. Indeed, a low level of
stress at work can be an incredible driver of
innovation and creativity, favouring the 4.1.1 Conceptual Framework: How to find
development of the capacity to adapt to the out what common stress factors are
unknown. Conversely, high stress can have present
long-term physical and mental consequences. When working constantly in an office
According to a study carried out in 2022 by the environment, there are often obvious
European Agency for Safety and Health at signs and symptoms of stress that can be
Work, stress is responsible for 60% of all lost spotted within a team. These may include
working days. an increased emotional response to
situations or a lack of motivation. In a
Hybrid work, this new organisational mode in
hybrid working environment, team stress
which part of the professional tasks are carried
can be rooted in different reasons and is
out in the workplace and the other part at a
often latent. It is therefore much more
distance, has multiple impacts on the
difficult for a manager to notice these tell-
management of stress in individuals. Like any
tale signs of stress in a hybrid working
change, it requires efforts to adapt and
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