Against Crunch Culture, Why Overly Fixating on Productivity Isn’t Productive
With all the tools and systems available in the modern workplace, employees can get an incredible amount of stuff done in a shorter amount of time. Workers have never been more productive. But due to this efficiency, there is an incentive to add even more to the workforce’s plate for the sake of boosting productivity. This is the crux of crunch culture.
So for all those fixated about the metrics, here are a few stats to take note of. Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s research for his book, “Dying for a Paycheck,” shows that:
- 60% of employees in the US have reported that workplace stress made them sick.
- 7% said they have been hospitalized.
- And due to this, US employers lose $300 billion a year.
- Workplace stress may also be behind 120,000 excess deaths each year.
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Against Crunch Culture, Why Overly Fixating on Productivity Isn’t Productive
