Deal with office overload
By LIU JIE (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-31 14:08 Meanwhile, women employees suffer more than their male
counterparts, as 41.4 per cent of the women surveyed report they are in a state
of moderate job burnout, compared with 37.2 per cent of men.
 Most
people start feeling the most office stress after working for four years, which
is much shorter than 10 years in the late 1990s, the chinahrd.net survey says.
Causes
Hudson's Chen says there are many factors contributing to the office stress.
"Amid the fierce competition in the human resources (HR) market, employers
have to work longer to cope with heavy workloads, receive last-minute missions
constantly and are faced with work performance appraisals by bosses," says Chen.
Zhang Xing, a consultant at a PR company, usually works 10 hours a day. But
there are times when he works more than 12 hours a day, and Saturdays and
Sundays sometimes become working days.
Turning down these extra hours is not a good career move, Zhang says.
"If you refuse overtime, someone will do it and replace you," he says.
However, Hudson's report finds that a shortage of suitable talent is one of
the reasons for increasing job burnout.
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