BERLIN (Reuters) – Solely 14% of European staff wish to return to the workplace 9-5, and greater than half say they’ve grow to be extra productive because of working from dwelling, which has boomed amid COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, a survey confirmed on Thursday.

However “hybrid working” – a mixture of working at dwelling and on the workplace – additionally has its draw back, with over 1 / 4 of respondents feeling like they work all hours or into the evening, in accordance with the survey commissioned by Samsung Electronics (OTC:) and the consultancy The Future Laboratory (NYSE:).

The survey of 14,000 individuals throughout Europe additionally indicated that 83% of staff had been searching for extra help from their employers to assist steadiness their work and residential lives.

About 12% of employed individuals within the European Union normally labored from dwelling in 2020, up from round 5% earlier than the pandemic, in accordance with information from Eurostat.

“With presenteeism now an outdated idea, employers want to consider carefully about how they meet the calls for of contemporary hybrid dwelling,” Benjamin Braun, vice chairman for Samsung (KS:) Europe, mentioned in a press release.

Two-thirds of Europeans mentioned they’d made – or had been planning – dwelling enhancements to make hybrid dwelling simpler, for instance by creating workplace areas at dwelling, whereas 41% had determined to maneuver home.

Within the survey by the world’s largest reminiscence chip and smartphone maker, 51% mentioned expertise was serving to them set boundaries, for instance, by utilizing cellular alarms or time administration purposes.

“We’re prone to see tech stepping in to watch our psychological well being and happiness as a lot as our bodily well being, with good units changing into our wellbeing assistants,” mentioned Meik Wiking, chief govt of Denmark’s Happiness Analysis Institute, which is collaborating with Samsung on the way forward for work.