Survey Finds a Third of Americans Are Chronically Overworked

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NEW YORK (AP) - One in three American workers are chronically overworked, with job-related stress varying significantly by age, employment situation, and demands at home, according to a new survey.

The survey by the Families and Work Institute largely echoes one done by the group in 2001 which also found that a third of employees are highly overworked. But that static result obscures changes in the workplace, where some workers are more stressed even as others - particularly younger workers - are finding ways to balance the demands.

"In some sense, things are getting worse. People are working longer hours and their jobs are becoming more demanding," said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, a non-profit research group. "On the other hand, employers have become more flexible and that tends to lessen being overworked, and also, people's priorities have changed."

More than half of the 1,003 workers surveyed said they are often handling too many tasks at the same time, or are frequently interrupted during the workday or both.

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[underpants]

1. Must produce for the man. Oh thank you Boss for allowing me to work here.

Work completes me. Get a job.

The RW plan coming to fruition.

[Selteri]

2. I thought the number would be higher

like half.

[Warpy]

5. The number who felt overwhelmed by daily demands was 54%

when those demands extended to scheduling and transporting children, housework, yard work, car care, and all the other things that working people have to consider besides being worked to death by some scumbag boss who wants fewer people to do more work for less money.

Again, I'm surprised the number is that low. People are being worked to the breaking point, both on and off the job.

No wonder they go home and die for an hour in front of the TV, eating fast food out of the bag while they think they're being "informed."

[durablend]

3. Repukes will rebuff this...

Claiming that people are just lazy and need to get up off their whiny asses and get a few more jobs.

[redqueen]

6. Clinical psychiatrists will back it up.

They see firsthand the results of what happens to employees when they're overworked and stressed... and the toll that takes on their relationships, on their loved ones, etc.

[Tempest]

4. Remember the Japanese problem a few years ago with overwork?

Suicides took a big jump (sorry, not a pun) a few years ago and research showed it was because employees were overworked and stressed out.

Many committed suicide by jumping out of windows from the buildings they worked in.


Here in America, workers go postal and take their bosses and co-workers with them.

[CO Liberal]

7. The Other 2/3 Were Too Busy To Respond To The Survey

:-)

[MountainLaurel]

8. It was a phone survey

So they didn't include the extreme poor who can't afford a telephone even though they may be working 2 or 3 jobs. Nor did they include people who are working during times (such as evenings after supper) that might be considered poor times for phone surveys.