The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies

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When you combine economic incentives, authority figures, and deep-seated psychological needs, you produce a cocktail that is simply too intoxicating to overcome.

Basically, if you think of the story of overwork as , the first explanation focuses on Ahab and the Pequod; the second on the ocean itself; and the last on the whale.

There’s a large body of research that suggests that regardless of our reasons for working long hours, overwork does not help us. For starters, it doesn’t seem to result in more output. In a study of consultants by Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, managers could not tell the difference between employees who actually worked 80 hours a week and those who just pretended to

. While managers did penalize employees who were transparent about working less, Reid was not able to find any evidence that those employees actually accomplished less, or any sign that the overworking employees accomplished more. Considerable evidence shows that overwork is not just neutral — it hurts us and the companies we work for. Numerous studies by Marianna Virtanen of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and her colleagues (as well as

 

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Send this to the folks in medicine :)

But you are right.

It might be true, but I am running experiences in another level of commitment, they are self-essays, to stablish that things are true, otherwise I wouldnt be able to talk kindly now after that adrenaline. There is too much lie in internet, it is a true distopia.

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