Monday, November 9, 2015
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I agree with the values expressed in this article regarding the concept that if people worked less then we would work better and be more productive. Delistraty made an accurate statement that others and myself can often relate to when he mentioned, "working long hours often leads to productivity-killing distractions. I personally find this to be true because at times while I'm at work I tend to get bored and turn to my phone. Social media and text messages quickly catch my attention as my focus is now on that instead of being productive to my duty at work. Another thing Delistraty mentions is that working too much leads to "disengagement at work". I agree with this because after working long hours we tend to lose interest in what we are doing and not being engaged causes productivity to diminish. The amount of time we work affects the quality of work.
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I agree with Stephanie, working a five hour shift and working and ten hour shift seriously exhaust you mentally and physically. Knowing that we have social media blowing up our phones it hard to focus on your work when you already dislike it. However, it depends on the personality or the position you are in. As she mentioned up there, "working long hours often leads to productivity-killing distractions." But if you have no choice to work you will love those long hour shift, since thats your way of living. Therefore, this can go both ways depending on the persons personality.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the the fact that there are clearly many distractions. As stated in the reading, "Working too much is at best, pointless, and at worst, actively harmful." When working to hard nothing gets done at all. It can even lead to life-shortening stress which is actively harmful. Even with all these reason to not over work its cheaper to hire some one to work long hours instead of hiring more to work half the time so it also has to do with the type of job that you work as well as the company and it's rules.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Stephanie because we do tend to work harder and longer hours when the results don’t come out as well. We also just tend to work hard because “” [we] cannot conceive otherwise even when it does not make sense to do so””. In other words we continue to work long hours because we are so used to doing labor, even when it is not required now. We get in a habit of working for so long that it’s not a big deal, even if health and family issues arise because of it.
DeleteThe writer of the passage stated that we fit our lives into our work rather than fitting our work into our lives. I agree with you Stephanie because when I worked too often, I too found myself lagging and getting distracted easier and more quickly than I would if I had been working less hours. Every time someone would ask to do something my response would always involve work that day or later that week. Overworking might feel right until you begin to notice the things you are doing differently.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree with Stephanie. I think it depends how many hours you're working and if you're working somewhere you enjoy. I agree with Sung when he says that when you're doing something you love, you wouldn't mind the long hours you're working. If you work somewhere you don't like and you have no interest in, of course you're going to be bored the whole time and hate everything about it, but if you enjoy where you work and you have people that you enjoy working with, the time will pass by before your eyes. the article states that, "Work less, and you’ll tend to work better." That's probably true but you just have to find the right balance.
ReplyDeleteI agree because after all long hours of work our minds tend to drift, to unrelated work ideas. As stated in The Atlantic by Cody Delistraty "Working overtime has even led to a few layoffs at the company, is also the simple reason for perpetuating overwork". With the unemployment rate so high, so many people are on the streets with no job while other employees are working 65+ hour weeks. This could all be solved if we would just take some time for ourselves.
ReplyDeletei agree with liza, it will always go back to finding a balance between how long someone works and how productive they will be, it honestly depends on the person itself. If you know that working long hours will cause you too lose interest in what you are doing then you need to set a schedule where that wont happen. If you think you can keep the same energy at work from hour one till hour ten then so be it you can keep up that productivity well. everyone just needs to find their own balance in how productive they can be.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the essay I must agree with what Delistraty says in order to work better individuals should work less. In the essay, Delistraty mentions that working more hours is not always a good thing. "For example, working long hours often leads to productivity-killing distractions. Such is an instance of the saying known as Parkinson’s law, which states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Work less, and you’ll tend to work better" In other words, it is not a good idea to work such long hours because after a certain point the outcome of the work is sloppy.
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