Trabalho, chefes, saúde, direitos adquiridos - para reflexão

"Consider ’work’. Work remains a dominating and defining part of our lives. We spend one third of our time doing it; increasingly more time than we spend with our loved ones. 

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Work is, and has always tended to be, one of the most defining aspects of our lives. ... Work is where we obtain purpose and meaning; where we meet friends, socialize and have community (and in an increasingly secular society it is one of the few remaining places where we can get sense of community); it is where we get motivated and engaged; where we can create and solve.

On the flip side, work can also drive us to utter exasperation and frustration; where we feel our efforts are a waste of time; where we feel unvalued, unloved and taken for granted; where we feel stressed. 

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• According to Forbes, new data shows that for almost 70 per cent of people, their manager has more impact on their mental health than their therapist or their doctor - and it's equal to the impact of their partner.
• The Macleod Report found that '54 per cent of the actively disengaged say that work stress caused them to behave poorly with friends or family members in the previous three months, against 17 per cent of the engaged. More alarmingly, 54 per cent of the actively disengaged say their work lives are having a negative effect on their physical health, versus 12 per cent of the engaged.
• The Stress Institute in Stockholm found that 'employees who had managers who were incompetent, inconsiderate, secretive, or uncommunicative were 60 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack or other cardiac condition?

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It is easy to see that the word pension may become an anachronism to most people under the age of 40. Indeed, from that data it is no surprise that 24 per cent of Millennials - that cohort born between 1981 and 1996 and (in 2023) aged between 27 and 42 - think they will never retire (this statistic was pre-pandemic before the recent bout of inflation further tarnished any retirement plans).

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In the UK, the retirement age is due to rise from 67 to 68, and recent reports have indicated that the government may bring this date forward by eight years."

Trechos retirados de "The World of Work to 2030: A practical guide to futureproofing your business and your career"