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Re: Why support companies that overwork their employees?
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Posted by Caarma [Email] (#592) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Caarma) on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:23:32 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Why support companies that overwork their employees?, Caarma [Profile/Gallery] , Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:11:38
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Lots of good points. This is great discussion that has opened my eyes to other vantage points.

I guess you could say that certain workers are compensated for risk and/or are aware of the risks before signing up for the job. But if they set limits for blue collar employees, shouldn't they set limits for white collar ones too? Limits of human capability have been studied both physically and mentally, but for some reason, mental work has escaped limits within companies. Work and responsibilities keep getting piled on as other employees are laid off. A blue collar employee doesn't get another half a job added on when times are tight. Us white collar people need to stand up for our rights too. Instead we generally do whatever is asked of us, albeit for more compensation.

In the case of medicine, medical residents may make more mistakes from the long hours and one even died falling asleep while driving home. So they set limits in certain states. More hours does not equate to more productivity and it often leads to a decrease in quality of work. A person who doesn't have a healthy life outside of work cannot be a well-balanced productive employee.

My original post was just meant to compare apples-to-apples. If one construction or mining company makes conditions safer for their workers than another company, should they not be commended/rewarded by consumers, (assuming we have access to such information)? In this case, a Toyota engineer, (not the first), died of overwork because of what was expected of him. To me, that's one strike against the company in terms of my possible future consideration for their products.
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