working less is a matter of life and death

Working less is a matter of life and death

Students: Joana Marinho, Luana Conceição, Milene Assunção, Tatiane Figueredo

​Work, good or bad?

• Working can be liberating ​when done in the right amount. If you go over the limit, it could be your downfall;

• ​“The work dignifies the person” but to what extent?

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• ​​Because of the pandemic, more people have been working for long hours straight;

• Those who work more than 55 hours a week may have serious illnesses;

• Overworking can even lead to death.

• In Japan, “death by overwork” is a legally recognized cause of death;

  It once was believed that human labor would be replaced by machines and human’s only worry would be about how to use the free time;

  Many people take pride in working longer hours than its considered healthy;

  Among 21 rich countries, the USA is the only one without paid vacation.​

​The Challenges to America's National Identity

• ​Even Americans who do get paid vacation use it sparingly.

• ​One study found that more than half did not use all their time off.

• ​Work longer hours, have shorter vacations, get less in unemployment, disability, and retirement benefits, and retire later, than people in comparably rich societies.”

• ​Many Americans work long hours to make ends meet.

• ​Rich people in earlier eras demonstrated affluence by ostentatiously not working. 

• However,  this changed. Today, wealthy Americans show off by working all the time.

​#thankgoditsmonday?

• ​In the era of meritocracy wealthy Americans flaunt a “work while they sleep” lifestyle.

• Because of the impending rise of capitalist exploitation things like health insurance, a house and good schools  have become Privilege for the wealthy and almost impossible for working class American. This way americans feel they have to work harder to attain these things.

• Because of the hustle harder mentality people find themselves setting less and less boundaries when they face work related issues.

• And with this more people started working outside of office hours, spending more time at work than at home and having leisure time.

Multiple Select

What's more important to you:

• Work to live

• Live to work

Multiple Select

What would you do if you didn't have to work?

• I would still work, just for fun

• I would enjoy my freedom doing stuff I enjoy and never work

Multiple Select

When in vacation, you... 

• Enjoy your vacation in a moderate way

• Think that you're wasting your time and get worried about being productive

Open Ended

What are your work boundaries?