Remote work: A smart bracelet tells your manager about your psychological state

At first glance, you may think that this silicon bracelet is a gymnast to track the heart rate while exercising.

However, this technique designed to wear in the wrist and is called "Modem" does not follow your physical health, but rather allows the employer to track your psychological state.

The device, which connects to the application of a mobile phone and a website, contains two button, one yellow and the other is blue.His idea is to press the yellow button if you feel happy and blue if you are sad.

The idea targets companies that want to follow the psychological state of its employees who work from home.

Employees are encouraged to put the bracelet (and they can refuse to do so) and pressure on the button that expresses their psychological state over the week's working days..

Topics that may interest you end

Managers can then see the data list on the Internet to determine the psychological state of employees and their ability to adapt.

In light of the inability of the managers to communicate with their work teams directly face to face, Modem hopes that this gap will be fed.

"The companies are trying to stay in contact with their employees.Here they can ask 500 people: Are you in good condition?Without having to call them on the phone..

Columbling Mac Hye had reached the idea of the product primarily after she discovered that her daughter was facing school difficulties, and she wanted to find a way that her daughter could tell her what she feels.The bracelet was raised commercially in 2016.

However, while many children, especially adolescents, are likely to reject the idea of pressing a button to tell their parents what they feel, how do the employees be ready to do the same thing with their manager?

The Coille Mac Hyu- whose company's headquarters in Hull- says many employees have already welcomed this to do so."We moved away from the idea of unknown data to the specified data after experiments were concluded that people want to reveal their identities.".

The British Mind Charity Foundation is among the organizations that are currently using Modem.

"He was one of the team members in a non -good psychological state, suffering from work pressure, and he is disappointed with what is going on around him..He would not have talking about this and we would not know that if we had not seen the data..

Mental health has always been a source of concern in the workplace, as the World Health Organization estimates that depression and anxiety cost the global economy trillion dollars annually before the outbreak of the epidemic due to the lost productivity.

However, it seems that the issue worsened as a result of the closure procedures imposed due.

The Mind Charitable Foundation for Mental Health in the United Kingdom says that 60% of adults believe that their mental health was worse during the first closure..

A survey conducted by the Human Resources Software Company "Emplomant Hero" suggested that a quarter of workers with small and medium -sized British companies need more mental health support during the outbreak of the epidemic.

While most of us are not expected to return to their workplace soon, a group of technology companies are studying ways to help companies take care of their employees better..

In San Francisco, the Modern Health application for mental health aims to help employers to communicate more easily with their employees through a variety of mental health sources such as therapists sessions.

The journey begins by answering the employee to a short electronic questionnaire about his mental health, which helps in developing a mental health care plan.

This may include holding video technology with an expert in dealing with anxiety or directing the person to an electronic meditation program.

"The idea is to give employees mechanisms to build hardness and psychological cohesion," said Alison Ferndenson, CEO of the company, which is the idea of giving employees to build hardness and psychological cohesion, "The idea is to give employees to build hardness and psychological cohesion..

"People work from home and suffer.Leaders can no longer expect employees to separate what is going on in the work and their personal lives..

Teenage taps, from the presentation of a dignity as a vehicle and prepared by Mays Baqi.

Episodes

Podcast End

This blurring surrounding the work time and rest time is one of the main aspects of the home to which many suffer.

In order to help separate the two things better, Microsoft is preparing to implement "default" via the "Times" application to exchange files and video meetings.

Users will receive a notification as the end of the working day approaches.

This urges them to do a series of activities such as adding pending tasks to the next day's agenda, thinking about their feeling about the day, and a contemporary session directed through the HeadSpace application for meditation and sleep.

"No one enjoys transportation, but the research we conducted showed that people appreciate the cognitive separation for the conscious transition between work and life," says Kamal Janardhan, general manager of the intelligence of the workplace at Microsoft..

He adds, "There is a need to enable people to find order and luxury on long business days,".

"The age of work within the office"

"It is extremely important for employers to abide by giving mental health to their employees..

However, some human resources warn that the increasing use of technology should not be a quick solution to help employees who work from home.

Chris Rolli, a professor of honorary Human Resources Department at the London Caspan College, says these tools should be strengthened with appropriate support for employees.

He adds, "These intentions related to mood and mental health are of great value, but employers need to reduce the employees' sense of isolation by building a sense of belonging and the group.".

The British company, Yindsk Technology, is seeking to help companies do so by returning employees to the workplace by default.

Jonandsk establishes interactive digital offices on the Internet, where the employee sits on a dedicated virtual office for him.The office can be designed so that the real office of the company mimics or has a fully different design or planning.

What if you want to make a call via video technology with a colleague?

You can simply press its button.Or if a person from outside the company is trying to contact you "will appear" in the default reception area.

Sheffield -based Delichice Alcleri has experienced technology in recent weeks."It was a useful way to create a sense of belonging to the team despite our inability to meet together in one place," the company, CEO of the company, said..