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RE: Why Do We Take Pride in Being Busy, Sick, and Miserable?
"My workplace definitely promotes a culture of overworking ones self even if being there so many hours doesn't even accomplish any additional work."
As I noted below, it's immediately obvious why they would want to do that. It would be surprising if they didn't do it.
Japan tried forcing this culture for decades, and now they have a generation of young men who don't want to move out of their parents house or interact with women, because that is simply seen as a gateway to a lot of unwanted responsibility.
The balance between work and play in the west is well out of whack. We could use more siestas.
Funny you mention the Japanese...my company's headquarters are in Japan and the culture in my facility is kind of a bastardized version of what the Japanese were doing years ago. The Japanese expats in my facility are quite honestly more reasonable and logical in their thinking and actions than many of the Americans that run the place are.
I remember asking an expat if the kids there (in JP) still had 6 day / week school and he said "no we figured out it's bad for them so we stopped doing that".
I don't mind working hard and I like being productive but the corporate culture in the U.S. has become completely insane to the point where it's nearly impossible to get anything meaningful accomplished. Unfortunately I've only been in the corporate world for just shy of a decade so I can't say "oh it didnt' used to be this way..." and know for sure that I'm correct in saying that.
""no we figured out it's bad for them so we stopped doing that"."
I wonder if it's going to take a generation to get back to some sort of middle-ground. The young men there now are, on average, doing nothing with their lives.
Couldn't agree more with everything else you said.