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Whatever your experience with office culture is, the daily grind is part of the modern world and is often more draining than it appears from the outside.
Luckily, there are many forms of therapy and, as the Instagram account ‘Corporate Millennial Anxiety’ shows, sometimes one of them is just looking at memes.
It shares painfully relatable jokes about the nine-to-five life, and at the very least, they make you feel like you’re not the only employee going through it and that someone else out there actually gets it.
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Sue User 2 weeks ago (edited)
I worked for a company that expanded so fast one year that they had trouble calculating raises in timely manner. By the time they figured it out , they couldn't afford to pay out, do they have stock in company. It was decades before they went public. But somehow the sakes guys and the executives got their bonuses on time.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
And re-reading the e-mail 4 times to ensure it has the 'right tone'.
According to a recent report from Microsoft, employees are now experiencing an “infinite workday” of constant emails, meetings, and notifications.
They check their emails as early as 6 a.m., juggle meetings through the afternoon, and then stay online well into the night.
Simply put, “it’s a very long day,” says Alexia Cambon, senior research director at Microsoft.
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Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
You might as well ask me what my high school GPA was. I have no idea! It was a long time ago and has no bearing on absolutely anything.
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Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
Being asked to hop on a quick Zoom is even worse! Because then I have to arrange my face so they can't see how annoyed I am. 😁
Beyond the extended hours, workers are also troubled by notifications. According to Microsoft’s data, employees are interrupted every two minutes by meetings, emails or messages, and receive an average of 117 emails and 153 Teams messages each workday.
As a result, they are feeling overwhelmed: 48% of employees and 52% of leaders reported that work feels “chaotic and fragmented” in Microsoft’s Work Trend Index survey, and 80% of global workers feel they lack sufficient time and energy to do their work.
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“We know from survey data that people are feeling very burnt out,” Cambon says. “The multiplication, the intensity and the length of the workday [are] really creating a lot of friction for a lot of employees.”
According to Cambon, part of the root cause of the infinite workday is that work models haven’t evolved with the times.
Take meetings, for example. “It used to be that a meeting was the only way for us to really exchange information and progress items forward,” Cambon says.
Now, employees can easily connect asynchronously, but synchronous meetings still take up a significant part of the workday. Nearly a third of meetings take place across multiple time zones, and meetings that take place after 8 p.m. have increased by 16% year over year.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
Had a manager who flexed at me after I apologized for sending communications during his vacay. "No problem, I had 5 thousand emails anyway".
Additionally, technology has given us near-constant virtual access to each other, making it difficult to truly disconnect from work. On average, workers send or receive over 50 messages outside of “core business hours.”
“All of the signals that we usually relied on to tell us when to begin work and when to end work were no longer there,” Cambon adds.
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The situation is so bad that, according to a new study by Kickresume, 80% of employees feel their jobs are responsible for their poor mental health and almost 40% of respondents have actually quit a job because of it.
It also revealed that 70% would turn down a high-paying gig if they weren’t offered any mental wellness benefits.
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Ria C. 2 weeks ago (edited)
Why the fork do I need a recovery email address now when I've had the same email for 10+yrs? I do not need extra email police. Don't give me the protection bullshirt. I've somehow managed so far to make it without google giving me a colonoscopy everyday I think I can manage without the extra verification.
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Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
Which is why I always end up staying up so late on Sunday nights. Like I can postpone the inevitable.
Which makes sense, as it seems that the higher people climb the career ladder, the more they feel the weight of their job:
- Among entry-level employees, 30% reported feeling stressed due to work, while 16% said their job actually improves their mental well-being.
- At the mid-level, stress levels increase, with 35% feeling overwhelmed, while the share of those who find work beneficial to their mental health drops to 11%.
- Senior-level employees experience a similar level of stress (35%) but are even less likely to report that work has a positive impact on their mental well-being, with only 10% saying so.
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Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Go on with the meeting anyway, but save your "Reverse" cards for key moments.
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NightOwlPanda 2 weeks ago
I've seen this done as "To Whom it Will Concern." --shorter -- pithier --worrying
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Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
As the time approached for me to retire from teaching, sometimes I was a little sad. I got over it.
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OneHappyPuppy 2 weeks ago
Officially 6pm, mentally 3:30, but on Fridays I'm not even present mentally
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Pawsome 2 weeks ago
A guy at my workplace (research lab, so a lot of PhD students and postdoctoral researches, typically young) is 36 and keeps going on about how old he is, but I don't think that he is the eldest, but also no one even really realised that he was older. No one really thinks of our ages? Except when it's a particularly new overeager polite newbie, but they typically outgrow that quickly...
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Kim Steffen 2 weeks ago
I worked for a French company in the US that shut down between December 25th and January 2nd. Paid.
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Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
When I was forced to state professional goals in an evaluation process, I sometimes chose ones that began with "Help my boss better understand that ...", "Assist management in reorganizing their method of ...", "Participate directly in promoting that the administration prioritize policy issues such as ...".... Apparently these goals were acceptable because they never questioned - in fact never even mentioned - them in the post-evaluation interview.
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NightOwlPanda 2 weeks ago
EBITDA. Isn't that what Andy Kaufman's character said all the time on "Taxi"?
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Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Is the person receiving the criticism the best one to judge whether it is constructive or not? After thinking about this, I realized that it doesn't matter if the person is trying to be constructive. In fact, some of the most useful insights and important facts I've ever received came from people who meant me no d**n good. Your enemies will tell you the hard truths that your friends won't.
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