Today's sun rises as usual, but some people stayed in yesterday forever. According to the statistics of the National Cardiovascular Center, there are about 544,000 sudden deaths in my country each year, and sudden central deaths account for more than 80%. A life leaves the world, leaving behind people's regrets and talk about overwork. In my heartache, I have to say that this is actually the epitome of the desperate efforts of every professional.
For IT personnel, most of the work intensity is already commonplace. There is no proof in word, so wheat collected relevant data and used Smartbi for analysis. By importing the data set, simply drag and drop several points to be analyzed, so that everyone can more intuitively understand the pain of the IT staff.
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Behind everyone's glamour is unknown sadness, just as the beautiful night scene of the city is lit by the lights in the business buildings. In large cities late at night, there are always some people who are still working overtime in the office at 8pm, sometimes not leaving until the early morning. The security guards in the lobby are always familiar even if they have never dealt with them.
(Top 10 overtime cities in 2019)
In the filled map made by Smartbi, we can intuitively see the top 10 overtime cities. Regarding the ranking of the average daily working hours, Beijing works an average of 10.02 hours per day Ranked first. Shanghai and Guangzhou ranked second and third respectively, with data of 8.89 hours and 8.68 hours respectively. It seems that working hard in a big city does require more hardships.
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In our country, there are as many as 550,000 people who die suddenly every year. Overwork is currently one of the most direct causes of sudden death of employees. Excessive overtime is the primary cause of death due to overwork. According to statistics, the enormous work pressure has caused the number of people who died of “overwork” to reach 600,000 in our country each year, which has surpassed Japan to become the largest country of “death from overwork”.
The threat of "death from overwork" has shifted from manual workers to mental workers, and is becoming younger. And this is no longer unique to any industry, and industries such as advertising, media, healthcare, and finance are not immune.
(Chart of the proportion of industries affecting the health of employees)
From the above figure, it can be seen that most of the miners and construction industries are engaged in high-intensity and high-risk manual labor and the working environment is poor, so they have become the occupations with the highest risk to health; the IT industry has seen more serious overtime work in recent years. Due to the death of labor, the IT industry has become the second most harmful to health.
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“I’m tired like a dog. I haven’t removed my makeup for eighteen days. I’ve spent two and a half months with it. My work and rest are disordered, but I’m getting fatter and I’m getting fatter and getting up to fight on the North Fifth Ring.” A song by the Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Chorus. "Empty" has become the inner BGM of many overtime dogs.
According to the current company's general work and rest time of 9:00-18:00, most people in the IT industry need at least 22:00 to finish their day's work. Some programmers said: "It's normal to leave work at 8pm on weekdays, and you don't feel like working overtime until 10pm."
(Weekly working hours of IT staff)
From the above figure, we can see that working long hours has become an existing situation in the IT industry. The 996 and even 9106 work systems have gradually become the norm for IT companies. 69% of IT staff work 50-80 hours a week, while only 26% of IT staff work less than 50 hours a week. This shows that IT staff I am under intense work pressure and mental pressure every day.
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In the high-paced metropolis life, many people say that they don’t even have time to breathe, not to mention going to fitness! Since IT personnel often sit in front of the computer for several hours, shoulder and neck problems are an occupational disease that most people fall into. As we all know, life lies in exercise, and many IT personnel have sub-health conditions: dyslipidemia, obesity, fatty liver, cervical and lumbar diseases, etc., are all related to lack of exercise.
(IT staff's views on sports and fitness)
As can be seen from the above figure, nearly 80% of IT staff seldom spend time on physical exercise, of which 24% have almost no time to exercise; 33% are not keen on exercise, even if they have time, they just want to take a good rest ; 22% of people do not reject exercise, but they do not exercise regularly. They will only consider exercising when there is time for someone to make an appointment; only 21% of IT staff will take time to exercise every day.
People say that modern people have four tight futures: tight brows, tight hands, tight clothes, tight time. For many IT people, 35 years old even means the end of their technical career. In order to obtain unlimited achievements in a limited career, more and more IT personnel are under high-intensity and high-pressure work at the expense of physical health. However, under high pressure, although the living standards of IT personnel have improved, the crisis of their physical condition is at stake.
As we all know, although the body as a system has the function of self-regulation, this self-regulation takes time. If there is no time for the body to adjust and rest, it will destroy the body’s self-repair system over time. The body causes adverse effects.
Based on the above analysis and summary, I make the following suggestions
- Caring for yourself, learn to balance work and life;
- Exercise your body to form your own living habits;
- Establish a pressure relief and release mechanism. It is necessary to know how to establish a stress relief and release mechanism to relieve depression and anxiety in the heart.
Everyone has their own ideals and goals in life, and they want to fight for themselves. Although you can love your work and work harder when you are young, don't exchange your precious lives. Without a healthy body, everything will be a cloud. For IT personnel, learning to use tools is the magic weapon to improve efficiency in workplace life.