26% of adult Americans report being on the verge of a serious nervous breakdown [2].
40% of workers describe their office environment as “most like a real-life survivor program [3].”
Only 14% of Americans take two weeks or more at a time for vacation [4]. The average American therefore spends more time in the bathroom than on vacation.
61% of Americans check email while on vacation [5].
53% of employees would opt for a personal assistant rather than personal trainer [6].
62% of workers routinely end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% report strained eyes, 38% complain of hand pain, and 34% report difficulty in sleeping due to work-related stress [7].
88% of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life [8].
70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children [9].
In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. Not surprisingly, the first group did better than the other two by an average of 10 points. The e-mailers, on the other hands, did worse than the stoners by an average of 6 points [10].
Unending Workweek Growth and Burnout
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