Overwork Leading to Stress
Overwork Leading to Stress and Burnout:
One Tuesday I woke up frustrated and exhausted from the previous day’s work. It was 6 PM and I had to be at work by 9 PM. I, along with millions of others from countries such as India, Pakistan, and Philippines have been sucked into the corporate jungle working ungodly hours at call centers in order to appease customers from across the world. I would term this as defying the law of the biological clock, however the timings are just a part of the stress caused from these corporate jobs. One can explain the growth in jobs as a result of the westernization of Asian countries. However, it is important to also look at how this has also impacted the culture of these countries leading to further stress.
Tomoyuki Iwashita from Japan, the author of "Why I quit the company" in the book "75 Arguments," joined the corporate world after graduating from university describes his job and company as a big and well known trading company with about 6000 employees all over the world with a lot of competition to get into this and other similar companies, which promise young people a wealthy and successful future. He was set on course to be a Japanese “yuppie.” (Iwashita 402). Emmy Werner and Ruth Smith who are social scientists have exactly described this career phase as follows: "When young adults enter the job market, they tend to focus on the status, salary, and demands of the job. They are willing to work overtime, to take irregular shifts, or to travel if doing so means promotion or job security." (qtd. in Berger 565). That’s the same picture one sees when beginning a career. One would think of this section of the corporate world as fascinating which included more money than the regular paying jobs, working at ungodly hours, shuttle services, perks and other incentives. The real picture would include a lot of more things one would chose to ignore in the beginning. Stress, over-worked employees, frustration, in security, depression,
One Tuesday I woke up frustrated and exhausted from the previous day’s work. It was 6 PM and I had to be at work by 9 PM. I, along with millions of others from countries such as India, Pakistan, and Philippines have been sucked into the corporate jungle working ungodly hours at call centers in order to appease customers from across the world. I would term this as defying the law of the biological clock, however the timings are just a part of the stress caused from these corporate jobs. One can explain the growth in jobs as a result of the westernization of Asian countries. However, it is important to also look at how this has also impacted the culture of these countries leading to further stress.
Tomoyuki Iwashita from Japan, the author of "Why I quit the company" in the book "75 Arguments," joined the corporate world after graduating from university describes his job and company as a big and well known trading company with about 6000 employees all over the world with a lot of competition to get into this and other similar companies, which promise young people a wealthy and successful future. He was set on course to be a Japanese “yuppie.” (Iwashita 402). Emmy Werner and Ruth Smith who are social scientists have exactly described this career phase as follows: "When young adults enter the job market, they tend to focus on the status, salary, and demands of the job. They are willing to work overtime, to take irregular shifts, or to travel if doing so means promotion or job security." (qtd. in Berger 565). That’s the same picture one sees when beginning a career. One would think of this section of the corporate world as fascinating which included more money than the regular paying jobs, working at ungodly hours, shuttle services, perks and other incentives. The real picture would include a lot of more things one would chose to ignore in the beginning. Stress, over-worked employees, frustration, in security, depression,
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