How Overworking is Bad for Physical and Psychological Health?

Life is all about having fun but most of the people loses its meaning by doing overwork all the time. They priortise their work than anything else no matter what the scenario is? Overwork will get your work done by consuming most of your time and giving your an overall efficiency of 65%-70% including 90% efficiency in your first 8hrs and then decreasing exponentially. Also, There are some hazards associated with your work that you should consider.    

“Avoid overtime all the time” 

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Harmful effects of overworking? 

Health and Fun? Overworking results in great health hazards and most importantly takes away your happiness. Sitting and doing work more than 9hrs a day causes stress, headache,obesity, diabetes , bad psychological effects and more. It degrades overall quality of life.
Sleep Debt? Sleep debt is like taking away your sleeping hours and spending it on working. Sleep debt is a result of staring at your computer screen, working all day and results in overall change in the schedules. There are very bad consequences of sleep debt. It can give you back problems, lose of eye sight, obesity and other physical hazards.
Family Time? Overworking is a big cause of the shortage of time and hence you get to spend only 5%-10% of 24hrs with your family. It is also a big cause of lack of understanding between family members and resulting into breaking of a family into parts.  

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Inefficient work? According to research, a person doing overwork tends to lack its efficiency. By the end of eighth hour the work efficiency tends to degrade and at the end of ninth hour fatigue starts building up and keep on increasing if kept on working. Generally, While overworking a person spends 50% more time and yet does only 25%-30% of work. There is a huge lose in efficiency of a person.
Habits? If you keep on doing overwork then it becomes a habit and you will get habitualised with it very soon. What do you think should you get habitualised with it? Of course not because it consumes most of your time and you cannot do your favourite things and have quality time.    

“More input doesn't necessarily mean more output” 

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According to a survey, a person doing overwork for longer than 3 - 4hrs have 60% higher risks of having heart related diseases than a normal person. These quantities may vary depending upon the work you do and the environment around you. Overworking people always tends to be competitive, tensed, stressed out and inefficient.  

Why do we Overwork?
Overworking isn’t fun so there must be some motivation and pressure behind overworking people. It may include higher pay grade , promotion, project deadlines, manager pressure, bright future for their family and a lot more. To achieve these things, we overwork and compromise with our physical and psychological health. Some of the people overwork just to prove themselves that they can do it. Well, You can do it by taking more time and with a lot less efficiency.  

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How do we Stop Overworking?  

If you are a manager? It is very important for a manager to look out for the employees he/she is managing and needs to understand that there no benefit to work more than 9 hrs because after that they will have 1/4th of the efficiency with 1/2 consumption of time. It will be beneficial if a manager follows some strict guidelines to manage their employees and their work allotment. A good manager is not the one who get its work completed on time but the one who takes care of its employees and guide them to do appropriate amount of work.  
If you are an employee? Greatest strength of a company or an organisation is its employees. It includes each an every employee no matter how small or large work they do. The only thing that matter is they work efficiently and complete their work on time. You can do it by following certain guidelines that is , not to work over 9hrs, this will not only save you a lot of time but also will power up your efficiency for the next day. If you really need to overwork depending upon the deadline then you should do it by taking frequent breaks like a 5 minutes break in every 45-60 minutes. Do fun activities in your break time like spend time with others, take good meals, listen to your favourite playlist and whatever make you feel relaxed. It will help you to recover your energy and perform tasks much faster. 48 is the lucky number for employees because after 48hrs they tend to have physical health risks. Live your life like it meant to be lived and avoid overwork as best as your can. 

“Don’t compromise with your health. It’s the only thing that you come with and will go with ” 

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