Surprisingly, the advent of
technology did not bring forth an era of relaxation and easy life for common
people. Instead, a recent survey has demonstrated that work has become
increasingly stressful, and works hours have gone haywire, that the most popular
last word is now ' I wish I did not have to work so much'. Stress and longer working
hours normally have detrimental effects on employee performance - over-burn and
inefficiency. The reasons for these phenomena are thus subjected constant
debate. To uplift the productivity of company, employers are seeking to redeem the worsening condition.
There are two principal
reasons that resulted in longer working hours. Firstly, the increased competition
from globalisation has droved workers to work harder, as they strive to
maintain their value for the company. Every growing desire in materialism is
the second reason, in the pursue to fill their greed, some will overestimate,
over task themselves with impossible jobs.
In order to combat the
increase of the fatigue, employers can enforce merits based rewards and know(understand) their
workers well. Performance based rewards will prompt workers to value efficiency
rather than raw working hours, thereby counteracting the negative influence.
Through the act of knowing the person well, projects and time could be better
allocated, leading to better workings environment and steam-lined management.
In a nutshell, competition
and pursue of materialism driven jobs to be more stressful and having longer
working hours, the negative influences can be counteract by employers through
merits based rewards and good communication.
