So the other day I came across this video below, check it out:
The hosts say the average working time in Ol' Germany was 30 hours a week (and I assume they have just seen the numbers provided by the state department for statistics, cause I sure know most are working way more *winkwink*). The dutch accordingly actually work 4 days a week on average with the same pensum of approx 50 hours a week. And they don't call them workoholics?!
But for all intents and purposes working past six hours without an essential break. The body and primarily the brain - and there goes my science-fable - decreases its ability to focus rapidly once the maximum span of attention payed and worked reached or when the break seems so far away. Hypothecally making us then a toddler with the attention span of 15 minutes. This just can result in nonsense and mistakes at work can't it?!
So why not voluntarily work only 30 hours in the first place? Well, your bank account will thank you - not. Our payment system is a mess. There I said it. We get payed a certain amount based on 40 hours assuming we truely are spending it all to our holy employer and are as productive as Einstein's theory of relativity allows. That most of us actually lose ourselves in work rather than in freetime we would have 10 hours more a week when 30 hours a week job taken is another phenomenon. And this has nothing to do with being from the so called Generation Y, X, Z or whatever. Honestly, though, I endorse being payed for commitment and the productive ideas given and created for the employer than for being there at least the amount of hours mentioned in the working contract. Isn't that much better for the interdependent success?
What do you think?
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