In our modern world the amount of people who work at home fairly rise. How could this condition influence on the quality of their work? I think the main benefit of this way is not spending time on transport. And the main difficulty, in my opinion, is in free schedule which you get when staying at home, because you can spend time ineffectively.…
One example of disruption of biological rhythms is due to shift work and shift lag. This disrupts your sleeping pattern because it means you are required to be alert at night, so need to sleep during the day. This reverses and disrupts your circadian rhythm, becoming desynchronised where it is no longer entrained by EZ’s. There are many consequences of desynchronisation such as sleep deprivation. Shift workers find it hard to sleep during the day because of the EZ’s such as light and sound disturbances that keep you awake. This means shift workers find it even more difficult to stay awake at night time because they have had a poor quality daytime sleep. This then affects their alertness. Night workers often experience a circadian ‘trough’ of decreased alertness during their shifts. For example Boivin found that cortisol levels are at their lowest between 12 and 4am, which is the primetime a night worker, would be working. This means they have low alertness and decreases the efficiency of their job. There are also many effects on health due to shift work. A significant relationship has been found between shift work and organ disease. For example, Knutsson found that people who worked shift work for more than 15 years were likely to develop heart disease than a non-shift worker. This may be due to the direct effect of desynchronisation in the circadian rhythm.…
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Also, health problems such us psychological distress, depression and even alcoholism may happen. The constant conflict between family – work responsibilities puts pressure to a person’s self domain.…
Workaholics and alcoholics can result in having troubles with a loved one. Such people, who are obsessed with working and drinking, usually are depressed and lonely individuals. Alcoholics and workaholics can disrupt family life and cause harmful effects that can last a lifetime. This can be true for families of workaholics also. Each member of the family may be affected by alcohol and work differently.…
With regards work-related psychological factor, the job-strain health psychology model helps understand how highly demanding jobs and jobs that gives workers little control lead to increased risk of heart-related illnesses (Nevid & Rathus, p. 136). The multifactorial health psychology perspective has also led to the understanding of how sudden life stressors, chronic fatigue/emotional strain and a physically inactive lifestyle figure in the development of heart disease and occurrence of heart…
Most people have to work many hours, 11-13 hours, a day which gives them enough time to go home to eat and sleep. When there are new products released people often sleep at the factory instead of going home. If goals are not met by a certain time, lunch breaks are canceled. Workers do not regularly get days off and trips to visit their family happen once a year. In addition, workers are exposed to harmful substances that may cause health problems. (Facing Finance)…
According to the medical dictionary a workaholic is defined as “one who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work” (The American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary). Although some people tend to confuse a hard worker for a workaholic, some common characteristics that can distinguish the two are that workaholics are often described as intense, impatient, energetic, competitive, and driven to perfection (Robinson 65). They often blur the line between business and pleasure, and prefer work to leisure regardless of the time or place. As a consequence, it is not uncommon for workaholics to suffer from an assortment of health problems and illnesses. Workaholics have a habit of resisting collaborating in the workplace and will likely have trouble delegating tasks, and find it difficult to take vacations or breaks (Spence and Robbins 162). Also, because they have a habit of pushing others as hard as they do themselves, other people tend to find them hard to get along with.…
As for the health of the nurse, nurses who work long hours are affecting their health in many ways. Some health problems that may occur in nurses are sleep…
Overtime leads to an increased risk of back pain especially if workers are in a job that leaves them behind a computer or sitting all day.Sitting behind a desk can also lead to diabetes, obesity, heart attacks and cancer which could result in death. People who sit at work are more likely to sit and watch tv when they are off of work instead of workout. Working overtime also reduces the amount of sleep the worker is going to get. On average adults need seven to nine hours of sleep but people who work a lot are more likely to get less than six hours of sleep and people who work full time are more likely to get six and a half hours of sleep on a good night. Not getting enough sleep leads to a slew of problems such as decreased memory, weight gain, and cardiovascular health problems. When you work 10 or more hours a day your chance of heart disease jump by 60%, also people who are more likely to work even when they are sick tend to have more heart attacks than those who…
In addition, a healthy body and mind can become the reason to a good work productivity. When people have access to health care, they live healthier lives and miss work less. When any worker is sick, most of the time they miss a day of work. Many people who are sick, don’t get the proper care they should be needing for their health because of the prices, thinking their fine, etc. If you don’t get proper health care, chances are you are most likely going to get sicker and miss another day of work, which in result can give a smaller pay check. Centres for disease control and prevention states “Healthier employees are less likely to call in sick or use vacation time due to illness”. If people keep calling in sick, it also can cost the economy…
Are you aware that a term, “workaholic” entered to the dictionary in past 20 years? The term, itself explains how terrifying it is. It comes from work and alcoholic and we should all understand that being workaholic is a bad addiction like alcohol. Yes, I think it is an addiction since most of the people spend most of their time working.…
People who are not officially employed by any company usually to be the ones who are even busier that anyone else. More precisely, they do not have certain work time during day and tend to work all day long. Especially those people who stay home and do the housework, they usually have a thought in their mind that they always have something to do next. Moreover, people who work in a company know when to start their work days and what time they can finish it and enjoy the rest time of the day. In fact, it is not what happens to those people who have to stay home and deal with housework as well as their children’s schedule. Most of the time they usually have to do multi-tasking works…
Summary: In the essay, "Part-time Employment Undermines a Student's Commitment to School" by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while working. They may have to work in the evening time, which can interfere with homework, sleep and diet. Steinberg also elaborated on how these students that work receive money that can make school seem less desirable. Also because they do receive money, they can use their extra money to become associated with drugs and alcohol.…
Apart from the addiction, a lack of daily routine or schedule also brings about using the internet excessively. Too much time using Facebook, shopping online, chatting with friends, spending a ridiculous number of hours doing anything online effect employee productivity and ignore other duties and responsibilities, which is the consequence of overuse of the internet. Thus, they rarely care about how much food they eat, how many hours they sleep which could result in health problems due to overuse of the internet.…