Model for evaluating the conditions of environmental stimuli that favor harmfulness and excessive loads to home-office users
home-offices, environmental stimuli, harmfulness, excessive loads.
In March 2020, the WHO warned about the pandemic outbreak caused by the new virus. To contain the spread of the virus, a series of restrictive measures were adopted, including social isolation, in which companies and schools suspended in-person activities and adapted to remote tasks, exacerbating conflicts in the home office. This situation brought both benefits and drawbacks, such as a lack of boundaries in working hours, excessive distractions, syndromes like burnout, stress, and anxiety, imbalance between home and work routines, among others. Thus, the present research seeks to propose and test a model for evaluating the conditions of environmental stimuli that contribute to the harmfulness and excessive burdens on home office users, suggesting ways to reduce them in order to improve the design of these spaces, considering that remote work is likely to continue in many companies. In this context, it is clear the importance of understanding the main factors that impact the harmfulness of these environments.