Medical Xpress reported: “Working outdoors an workplace could spare you from commutes and interruptions by colleagues however it additionally makes you extra weak to unpaid additional time, stress and insomnia, the UN stated Wednesday. A brand new report from the United Nations Worldwide Labour Group studied the impacts of working remotely, with technological advances persevering with to revolutionise conceptions of the office. Based mostly on information taken from 15 nations, the ILO discovered that staff have been extra productive whereas outdoors of a traditional workplace however famous it additionally introduced dangers of ‘longer working hours, greater work depth and work-home interference.’ The report drew distinctions between staff who frequently work from home, extremely cell folks always working in numerous places and those that cut up time between an workplace and one other website. All three of these teams reported greater stress ranges and extra incidents of insomnia than those that at all times work at their employer’s premises. For instance, 41 p.c of extremely cell staff stated they felt a point of stress, a determine that was 25 p.c for workplace employees. A full 42 p.c of people that at all times do business from home or from a number of places reported affected by insomnia, in comparison with 29 p.c for individuals who work at their employer’s website.” (medicalxpress.com)