You’re Telling Me
Published by McBoing August 10th, 2006 in Health, WorkSydney University academic Dr Caroline West says while work delivers self-esteem, income and social ties, more than four to six hours a day will bring anxiety, exhaustion and a poor quality of life.
“We’ve structured our lives so the majority of our waking life is devoted to work, which might bring us more money but doesn’t make us more fulfilled,” Dr West said.
“So long as there’s a trend to work these really long hours you’ll continue to see the plateauing and decline of people’s wellbeing.”
I’ll forward this to my boss first thing tomorrow morning.
That’s interesting in light of the fairly easily observable fact that in the absence of labor laws or labor organization working conditions tend to rapidly converge on 12 hour days 6 days a week…
Work is teh sux. Today, I had to tell this guy that he is an idiot and mathematics are impossble for him to understand. It ended up being “Well, when you come back tomorrow, I want you to have looked at this section on divergence and have done these problems. Maxwell’s laws in vector calculus form will make a little more sense for you.” And maybe I won’t have to deal with your stupidiity.
Dude, I have been saying this for years.