WFH
work(ing) from home – sostantivo e verbo
homeworking – sostantivo
Google will give every employee $1,000 to WFH. Its head of wellness explains why.
Work from home burnout is a serious issue. And it’s only getting more serious with the uncertainty, stress, and additional home responsibilities of our current situation.
It’s not surprising then that there is something of a popular revulsion and revolt to the whole WFH notion.
Le abbreviazioni e gli acronimi nascono molto in fretta e talvolta è difficile star loro dietro; un esempio tra i tanti è l’acronimo WFH, diffusosi rapidamente negli ultimi mesi in seguito alla pandemia. E se svolgere il proprio lavoro da casa è cosa comune per alcuni, per chi invece era abituato a recarsi in ufficio cinque giorni a settimana si è trattato di una grossa novità. Certo, non tutti sono fortunati come i dipendenti di Google, che hanno ricevuto un bonus di mille dollari per acquistare tutto l’occorrente per lavorare da remoto… molti si ritrovano appollaiati col loro portatile al tavolo di cucina o in un angolino del salotto, magari cercando di giostrarsi tra lavoro, figli e scuola a casa e potenzialmente mettendo a rischio la propria salute fisica e mentale. Se, come sembra, il WFH proseguirà anche superata l’emergenza, datori di lavoro e dipendenti dovranno riorganizzare le modalità in cui si svolge.
Origini del termine
WFH risale agli anni 1990, quando il basso costo dei PC e delle connessioni internet resero possibile svolgere il proprio lavoro da casa almeno in parte.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
work(ing) from home – noun and verb
homeworking – noun
Google will give every employee $1,000 to WFH. Its head of wellness explains why.
Work from home burnout is a serious issue. And it’s only getting more serious with the uncertainty, stress, and additional home responsibilities of our current situation.
It’s not surprising then that there is something of a popular revulsion and revolt to the whole WFH notion.
Abbreviations proliferate at an incredible speed, to the extent that it’s hard to keep up with them. One that’s been popping up everywhere over the past few months is WFH. This initialism refers to the practice of working at home rather than in your usual workplace. It’s normal practice for some but many others who usually travel to an office five days a week are experiencing it for the first time. Of course not all home workers are equal, and while Google is able to give its home-based employees 1,000 dollars each to enhance their home workspace, many others are perched at the kitchen table or in a corner of the living room, trying to juggle work, childcare and home education, and potentially even storing up problems with their physical and mental health. Since it seems that WFH is going to be with us for some time, employers and employees are going to have to find ways to make it work better for everyone.
Origin
WFH was first recorded in the 1990s when affordable PCs and dial-up internet started to make it feasible for many people to work from home some of the time.
