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In the company I work at in Washington DC we have many workaholics. It is a macho excercise to tell your coworkers how many hours you are working. Lots of folks work 12-16 hours a day and 70-80 hours a week. Saturday and Sunday's are just another day of work. I have to assume that much of the overtime is due to the bosses pressure and peer pressure. It is just expected that people in some of our company divisions will work long hard hours.
Funny thing there were layoffs last month and some of our hardest workers got canned and are now sitting at home with nothing to do all day. Not much loyality at our company for hard work.
What do you think about workaholics and if you are one yourself, why?
I don't understand the issue of being a workaholic. To me, the idea of working to live is just something modern society says.
To some, work is the means to self-actualise and achieve. Who is to say they're wrong? Maybe they also have little familial commitments. Maybe achieving at work genuinely gives them joy. I don't think it's an either or, and working to live IMO is just as valid.
I think in your company, maybe the corporate culture is to work hard, and be highly productive.
I heard once that if you can't get your work done in 8 hours, you either don't know your job or need help.
A building contractor in our area works 8 hours a day.
The boss say when other construction workers brag about all the hours they work he tells them if they worked as hard as his workers, they wouldn't have the energy to work long hours.
The idea behind the 40 hour week is to give an equal amount of work, leisure and sleep time with a couple of days off each week. That's what's "magical" about it.
WT, while I think there are some "macho" types who just "live to work" (and regret it on their deathbed), in the last 20-30 years too often it is the boss who has become this way and then everyone feels they have to do it to "compete". Then it hurts those who can do their job most of the time in 8-9 hours.
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Originally Posted by samston
That depends on the workplace or the nature of the job.
There are exceptions but in most cases if there's constant very long hours it's either inefficiency on the employee or (perhaps more accurately exploitation) on the employer
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Yes! My coworkers love working on weekends, major holidays, etc. The funny thing is they are LESS productive and make more mistakes. As someone else mentioned, most of them were the first to go during the last round of layoffs.
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