Quit - different job.
Its a management/company culture thing.
Burn out, find something healthy. The fact that most wont since they need the money tells us how nasty this is.
Its a management/company culture thing.
Burn out, find something healthy. The fact that most wont since they need the money tells us how nasty this is.
I was reading the book '168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think', and the author mentions how researchers in the past were predicting we would have so much free time in the future.
Humans are being treated like this. As technology increases, humans are merely expected to produce more in the same amount of time. There's no law that guarantees humans would have more free time due to increased efficiency.
On the edges, where people are forced to work 60+ hrs a week there's enough leverage of people simply being unwilling to do the job (though even this isn't as true for some elite jobs). On the other hand, if they're just being asked to clock in from 9-5? There would need to be some outrage and push, but this makes you look lazy. There seems to be some progress made on vacations in corporate America, though.
Also, some roles would legitimately suffer or not work at all at 20-30 hrs. I think the ideal is to normally work 40-60 hrs "busy weeks", but not try to load people down when things naturally get slower and let them dip into the time for personal, so it's usually 30-35, or occasionally a bit less.
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
I think Keynes talked about it a lot too.