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Copenhageners the least anxious home-based employees in the world, according to new ranking

Arzia Tivany Wargadiredja
June 3rd, 2021


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The pandemic has crippled many – physically, mentally and financially. But Copenhageners who work at home have emerged relatively unscathed, according to a new ranking, which suggests they are the least anxious anywhere in the world. 

To study the effect of the pandemic on those who work at home, Small Business Prices assessed 43 cities to reveal where they are most likely to face anxiety.

And its study concludes that Copenhagen has been the best place. Indeed, many workers based at home remain confident they have a promising career ahead of them despite the pandemic.

Copenhagen topped the ranking for both contentment, annual working hours and rates of depression. 

Most anxious workers
Copenhagen was followed by Prague, Zurich, Reykjavík and Berlin in the rankings. Olso, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Amsterdam and Vienna completed the top ten. 

South African city Cape Town ranked bottom followed by Athens and Istanbul.

Research published by Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that focuses on health issues, revealed that both remote and onsite workers are also grappling with serious mental health consequences due to COVID-19.

Check out the list of countries and cities where employees are least anxious here.


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Moreover, 21 percent of those surveyed admitted to medicating their kids with paracetamol, such as Panodil, before sending them to school.

The FOLA parents’ organisation is shocked by the findings.

“I think it is absolutely crazy. It simply cannot be that a child goes to school sick and plays with lots of other children. Then we are faced with the fact that they will infect the whole institution,” said FOLA chair Signe Nielsen.

Pill pushers
At the Børnehuset daycare institution in Silkeborg a meeting was called where parents were implored not to bring their sick children to school.

At Børnehuset there are fears that parents prefer to pack their kids off with a pill without informing teachers.

“We occasionally have children who that they have had a pill for breakfast,” said headteacher Susanne Bødker. “You might think that it is a Panodil more than a vitamin pill, if it is a child who has just been sick, for example.”

Parents sick and tired
Parents, when confronted, often cite pressure at work as a reason for not being able to stay at home with their children.

Many declare that they simply cannot take another day off, as they are afraid of being fired.

Allan Randrup Thomsen, a professor of virology at KU, has heavily criticised the parents’ actions, describing the current situation as a “vicious circle”.

“It promotes the spread of viruses, and it adds momentum to a cycle where parents are pressured by high levels of sick-leave. If they then choose to send the children to daycare while they are still recovering, they keep the epidemic going in daycares, and this in turn puts a greater burden on the parents.”