In the quest for job success and satisfaction, are modern employees sacrificing their personal lives all together? Recent research says yes. In today’s time demanding workforce, employees never seem to leave the office, remaining connected even at home through technology. The amount of hours worked per week has increased to 72 from 52 in 1992.
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This additional 20 hours represents less time for personal endeavors, including time with the family. This has affected recent graduates of business school so much that only 41% of people desire to have children in the future, comparatively to 90% in 1992. Families have increasingly become factors contributing to role conflict at work and vice versa. In a study done by the Canadian government in 2011, 58% of employees reported that they felt work overload. I personally think that this generation of workaholics is not sustainable and will lead to greater mental health problems and therefore more absenteeism in the work place. After all, there is considerably more value in life than the value gained from a career. I argue that in the next few years, it will be a major human resource issue of how to properly motivate employees whose lives are solely about work.
Sources:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/occup-travail/balancing-equilibre/index-eng.php