In my view of this article “The Reason Why You Overworked” the main stressors that contributes to being overworked can easily identified as sleep deprived; physical and time pressures, deprived family and social times. When you are sleep to deprived you become an accident waiting to happen according to the brain function research Moreover, three quarters of truck drivers reported being tired on the job due to long working hours, working approximately 93 hours a week, with half of them getting less than 5 hours of sleep per day (Maldonado, 2002). When people are over-worked they spend less hours resting depriving the brain from functioning correctly.
Additionally I’ve discover another major reason why we work to hard is to compensate for what’s not taking place in our work places. For example, meaningless communications, poor leadership, embattles decision by superior and suppress feeling of inaccuracies to name a few. The internet is another major factor why people are over-working, with the understanding that a computer can do triple the amount of work it takes humans to accomplish. As a result it will cost the an employer far less to maintain for instances, there are no health care insurance, maternity leaves, vacations days, and personal days. This can further be demonstrated in local retail stores like Wal-marts where cashier are being replaced with self check system.
Another study shows according to Business Week that people are overworked because of their organizational culture. It’s some people myth that working hard is a part of the american way and dream. Most people who enter the work force in early 40’s and 50’s have the sweat of the brow mentality an honest day’s pay which nothing is wrong with that however that same energy and mentality can be converted to work smarter and not harder. It is estimated that robots especially in the manufacturing industry will take over the hard-working work force mass production and higher returns on company’s investments in the work force.
Today more and more companies are realizing that over worked employees are actually hurting their companies. Most mistakes are done when people are distracted by fatigue, therefore companies are allowing employees to have flexible schedule, fitness program, nap rooms. I personally think the best way a company can prevent employees from being over worked is to make sure they are accurately staff up on all levels.