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enabled SEAT to maintain its operations while protecting the
health and safety of its employees.

GOOD PRACTICES FROM GDOCE

Testimony N°1/Bad practice

Thematic Overwork. Doing more hours than it should due to the possibility to do work
from home.

Name of the Anonymous
worker

Country Spain

Occupation Teacher at a private school

0. What is “I have been working for this private school for almost 3 years now, and
your experience. they have always had, what it is called now, a flexible approach. It is nothing
What is your new. In this field, we have been doing work from home since the beginning
problematic of time. To make it worse, technological developments of the last few years
situation in your are not improving but blurring the lines between on and off duty.
job/your Homework, lesson preparation, reports and even follow-up meetings with
organisation coordinators and headmasters can be done remotely, anytime. Moreover,
regarding flexible the need to keep parents updated almost on a weekly basis has increased,
work which leads to a greater unpaid workload. We are given the freedom to
undertake all these tasks as it suits us (anytime, anywhere), however our
contracts leave little room for non-teaching time. As a result, we do a lot of
extra hours that are not economically compensated and our working hours
never seem to end.”
B. How do “I need, like most of the colleagues I talk to, to have clear boundaries. I
you think don’t think it is neither healthy nor productive to have your working day
the spread across the 24 hours in a day. You teach during the morning and you
situation do the rest of your works while you are cooking, after doing some
could be housework or after coming from visiting relatives. This way there is no real
improved? disconnection from work, which increases the stress and anxiety. On top of
that, regular messages from management outside working hours doesn’t
really help to put your mind to rest”
Reference https://workplaceinsight.net/flexible-working-does-not-reduce-levels-of-
s on the overwork/
topic
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/remote-employees-
are-working-longer-than-before.aspx

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/homeworking-