Pounding heart
As I was plowing through my RSS feed aggregator yesterday, I came across an article on BBC how managers work 40 days more a year then other employees. So I actually looked at the article instead of just checking out the first paragraph, and to my horror, 40 days a year equals to working an hour longer a day! This is outrage, isn’t it!? The article then goes on and talks about the negative impact on health and performance that such overworking has. My heart was pounding with excitement that some has raised that issue.
And then I realized that I would be glad to work for a company which required me to work at most 48 hour weeks. As I am job searching and going through the notions of finding the right fit company for me, it frightens me how many “great” employers don’t really care about the well being of their workers. How corporate culture reward those that are willing to sacrifice their private lives for the company and work 70 hour weeks. How the society pushes us to live to work and not work to live, and, which I think is worse, that majority of people don’t have a problem with that.
We are so involved in winning the rat race that we forget that there is life out there. We forget that there are other ways of doing things and that the world will not end if we slow down a bit.
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