The import and export analyst, Rodrigo, 28, requested his resignation in December for not agreeing with the return to face-to-face work during the Covid-19 pandemic period. Rodrigo would have to leave São Paulo, the city he has lived in since the first days of the health crisis, to go to Macaé (RJ) at least twice a week.
Travel time would amount to 10 hours to go and another 10 hours to come back, so the analyst he decided to leave the company, which required his return due to building maintenance and engagement with the team. The professional gave up labor benefits, such as FGTS and unemployment insurance, and none of his bosses brought him a proposal for him to remain in the company, even after 10 years of services rendered, account.
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“There is a concern about my health, of course, it is the first point. There is no need to expose myself because what I do can be done from home”, he said.
Rodrigo was responsible for handling and implementing import and export activities and worked day by day with numerous documents on his computer.
After his resignation, he already got a new job in his area, in São Paulo. The regime is hybrid and the professional will have to go to the office twice a week. However, he has already demonstrated his willingness to work from home at all times.
“In the home office, in addition to the lower cost advantage [with transportation and food], I feel more comfortable. I can sleep later, I don't get stressed in traffic and I have more time for myself”, she says.
Work 'watched' from afar
Even though it is the reality of a tiny portion of Brazilians, the pandemic period made the market accept a new modality of work, the home office. In March, a Provisional Measure was published that allowed companies to adopt hybrid work. According to an Ipsos survey, 31% of Brazilians prefer to work at home, even in the post-pandemic period. Among them is Alessandra, 29, an architect, who did not want to go back to face-to-face work and left the company in January this year, after returning to work and seeing her boss not wearing a mask even at a time when she had not yet taken the second dose of vaccine.
Even when she was working at home, Alessandra was unhappy, as the company made her install a home office management program on her computer.
Workers may have to return to face-to-face
Regina Madalozzo, a researcher at Gefam (Brazilian Society for the Economy of the Family and Gender), says that employers and their employees are adapting to these new issues. Meanwhile, fear of unemployment may make workers accept face-to-face jobs, even against their will.
“It's nice to imagine that employees will be able to negotiate with their boss to work from home and live in the countryside, but reality is different”, she says. “If the country's economic conditions are not favorable, the workers will not have the power to make agreements”, added the researcher.
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