Manejo del estrés laboral en tiempos de pandemia: caso empresa FANDET LAW FIRM

Abstract

The "management of work stress in times of pandemic: FANDET LAW FIRM company case" is an investigation whose purpose was to know how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the employee's health in their work areas within the company. The methodology followed is qualitative, quantitative, and other techniques such as the personnel survey. This process showed that the company's personnel is exposed to work stress due to poor distribution of work, excessive workload, lack of rest hours, and work under pressure from their subordinates. Implementing a proper organizational structure is necessary to prevent all these problems. In this way, the distribution of activities in each work area will help the company's personnel by making each department have strategies such as rest hours following the provisions of the labor code and the company's regulations. This organizational structure will generate motivational activities at the beginning of daily activities. This structure will encourage workers to have a suitable place in their homes to carry out activities to avoid ergonomic diseases eradicating pressure from their bosses, and thus, a work environment providing them more emotional stability so that it is more efficient. The findings determined that the most frequent problems within companies due to the pandemic come from the stress generated by the health crisis. This crisis brought new work methodologies, and the sudden change from face-to-face to a virtual modality affected the performance of several workers generally used to carry out their activities in a single work area. This change, in turn, caused emotional instability and a decrease in labor performance. As a final recommendation, it is essential that the business owner encourages the company's members to propose a recreational activity before starting their work. Also, it is crucial to manage flexible and rotating work schedules with a better distribution of activities contributing to the employees fulfilling their tasks without being stressed or pressured during each of the activities entrusted by their superiors