Why recycle dangerous and how to protect workers from overwork
Work And Study Health / / December 19, 2019
A little stress increases productivity, but only up to a point. If it is too strong, and we force ourselves to work on, there comes fatigue.
First, we collect will in a fist, and work hard. We even think that we can handle. Day by day we ignore the danger signals and force ourselves to strain trying to combine all the responsibilities and time to do all things. But over time, the overvoltage makes itself felt. As a result - burnout, depression, illness.
Organizations are all increasingly expect that the employees themselves will take on tasks beyond their duties. For example, to help colleagues without any additional requests to stay at work, respond to messages late at night and on weekends. This behavior is typically associated with high motivation and interest work.
But this has a negative impact on the physical and mental health, especially if one evening the processing flows in the two, three, five, turning into a never-ending marathon.
Processing deplete
It is discovered by scientists from the University of Bocconi in Italy. According to their research, when the company puts pressure on staff, forcing them to work more laid, they begin to suffer from overwork. For those who constantly feel the need to process, the level of exhaustion is 50% higher than that of other employees.
This is due to two problems. On the one hand, is expected of us, we will process and to make additional efforts. If earlier it might serve as a pretext for increaseThen it is now considered commonplace. However, our main duties are still there, only now to find them time and effort to become harder. If you long to work in this mode, accumulated fatigue.
In addition, the researchers discovered another side effect of treatment, which affects our personal lives. Since we spend more energy at work, we need more time to recover from it. At home, we often get angry and take it out on friends.
What can companies
- To draw attention to the problem of middle managers. They must understand that you can ask from the staff to spend more time at work, and when to give them more freedom. For example, employees can expect from the superhuman effort during the preparation of the annual financial report, but then give them the choice of additional output in the auditing company.
- Enter the organization's policy, which encourages employees to balance work and personal life. For example, in some companies, employees can not go to work e-mail after six in the evening or at the weekend.
- Focus on long-term results, and not to evaluate employees on short-term performance indicators.
Recycling nobody will benefit if it will follow for fatigue and burnout.
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