Toiling

Here’re some pie charts I drew up from figures presented in Jessica Irvine’s article No work choices – we’re toiling round the clock on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website.

Andrew Boyd said:

Scary, huh?

I wonder if we’ll end up revolting against work like our Japanese colleagues – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi says that lawsuits around people working themselves to death are on the rise. No-one should be encouraged to work themselves to death – and I contrast this to “being worked to death” because we mostly have a choice to not do this. Mostly. That said, there are organisations that expect people to perform above and beyond the call of duty every single day, which works when your work is your hobby, but is not sustainable.

Something that we all need to think about.

Cheers, Andrew

31 May 2007 at 10:31 am
Mobile Computing » Blog Archive » Hot Links for Friday 01 June said:

[...] Zern Liew put some graphs together to illustrate how Australians work too much. Aussies, we’re supposed to be slackers, but we work more unpaid overtime than just about anybody, which got me thinking about Karoshi, death by overwork. [...]

11 June 2007 at 5:32 pm
IA Speedlinks for the week that was at HumaneIA said:

[...] Zern Liew on Toiling got me thinking about work and afterwork, and led to my thoughts on the changing nature of work. [...]

13 July 2007 at 10:16 pm