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Sociologists have been so excited about a raising happiness " natural experiment " that occurs in Korea. In 2004, the Korean government began requiring companies to reduce the work week back from six to five days. Researchers now have nearly a decade of data on how these enormous changes have affected people 's satisfaction with their jobs and,raising happiness more importantly , his life .
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The interesting thing about this is that it should improve our understanding of how the number of hours worked per week affect employment and life satisfaction . We already have research showing clearly that working long hours is correlated with work-family conflict and other forms of poverty ,raising happiness but do not know if many hours causes unhappiness or if, for example , the work of unhappy people disproportionately businesses that require long hours.raising happiness
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That's why I was surprised by the results :raising happiness The most recent study on this topic suggests that Korean labor reform five days had less than ten years and a day's work for less " expected positive effects on well-being of workers. " Weeks ,raising happiness people are not happy with their work and their life together .raising happiness
Say what?raising happiness Despite a dramatic correlation between work less overtime and feel happier, the researchers found that the reduction imposed by the government of the working day has made people happier, on average, when they controlled for things like income . His theory on why :happiness raising Employers have not reduced the workload of employees when their work hours reduced . Workers actually only reduced their working four hours 'official' of the week, not eight . This means that workers have four hours less to do their work ,raising happiness or commute to work more efficiently and fewer , longer days, and they continued to work at the same time , but his work in books.happiness raising
happiness raising Maxed-out workers need less work, less time to do the same amount of work . Part of what I find in parenting time pressure is terrible .happiness raising It's exhausting to have the same amount of work, but less time to do it .
All this to say that the obvious solution Bind -happiness raising a government mandate to work less for our time is probably not coming to a workplace near you.
But I'm not saying that our government does not need the help the most out parents.happiness raising
The problems facing working parents are not our own individual problems. Not that we are " overwhelmed and overworked simply because [we ] individually or also did a poor job against [ our ] responsibilities " as Sharon Lerner wrote in the war against mothers .
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Our collective fatigue is sociological . Its roots come from the way that our society and our economy is structured. As Katrina in Al Alcorn puts up: "We lack social support systems , and we need to realize our potential and share our talents with the world. "happiness raising
At the same time , we went to a lot of disappointment , not to mention the feelings of victimization, if we cling to the belief that we must change our institutions , our government , our workplaces , our wedding, before we can be happy in life and successful and productive at work. There are three important things we can do to prevent our own shortcomings.
Sociologists have been so excited about a raising happiness " natural experiment " that occurs in Korea. In 2004, the Korean government began requiring companies to reduce the work week back from six to five days. Researchers now have nearly a decade of data on how these enormous changes have affected people 's satisfaction with their jobs and,raising happiness more importantly , his life .
raising happiness !!!
The interesting thing about this is that it should improve our understanding of how the number of hours worked per week affect employment and life satisfaction . We already have research showing clearly that working long hours is correlated with work-family conflict and other forms of poverty ,raising happiness but do not know if many hours causes unhappiness or if, for example , the work of unhappy people disproportionately businesses that require long hours.raising happiness
raising happiness If I worked a regular day less per week ,raising happiness I think it will definitely be happier with my work , hours of work , and my life in general. Really, I can not think of any maxed mummy , or even any working parent who does not dream of someone they have to work less.raising happiness
That's why I was surprised by the results :raising happiness The most recent study on this topic suggests that Korean labor reform five days had less than ten years and a day's work for less " expected positive effects on well-being of workers. " Weeks ,raising happiness people are not happy with their work and their life together .raising happiness
Say what?raising happiness Despite a dramatic correlation between work less overtime and feel happier, the researchers found that the reduction imposed by the government of the working day has made people happier, on average, when they controlled for things like income . His theory on why :happiness raising Employers have not reduced the workload of employees when their work hours reduced . Workers actually only reduced their working four hours 'official' of the week, not eight . This means that workers have four hours less to do their work ,raising happiness or commute to work more efficiently and fewer , longer days, and they continued to work at the same time , but his work in books.happiness raising
happiness raising Maxed-out workers need less work, less time to do the same amount of work . Part of what I find in parenting time pressure is terrible .happiness raising It's exhausting to have the same amount of work, but less time to do it .
All this to say that the obvious solution Bind -happiness raising a government mandate to work less for our time is probably not coming to a workplace near you.
But I'm not saying that our government does not need the help the most out parents.happiness raising
The problems facing working parents are not our own individual problems. Not that we are " overwhelmed and overworked simply because [we ] individually or also did a poor job against [ our ] responsibilities " as Sharon Lerner wrote in the war against mothers .
happiness raising
Our collective fatigue is sociological . Its roots come from the way that our society and our economy is structured. As Katrina in Al Alcorn puts up: "We lack social support systems , and we need to realize our potential and share our talents with the world. "happiness raising
At the same time , we went to a lot of disappointment , not to mention the feelings of victimization, if we cling to the belief that we must change our institutions , our government , our workplaces , our wedding, before we can be happy in life and successful and productive at work. There are three important things we can do to prevent our own shortcomings.