Overload
How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
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Janet Metzger
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Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations.
In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem. But this unhealthy and unsustainable situation can be changed - and Overload shows how.
Drawing on five years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees and managers, Kelly and Moen tell the story of a major experiment that they helped design and implement at a Fortune 500 firm. The company adopted creative and practical work redesigns that gave workers more control over how and where they worked and encouraged managers to evaluate performance in new ways.
The result? Employees' health, well-being, and ability to manage their personal and work lives improved, while the company benefited from higher job satisfaction and lower turnover. And, as Kelly and Moen show, such changes can - and should - be made on a wide scale.
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- Andrew
- 21-08-2021
Evidence for change, but that's it...
This book provides a detailed account on the outcomes of a work re-design study and the set up of said study. But doesn't give much information on what the changes made were in an easily consumed format, or much actionable items... Until the last appendix. I kept listening hoping they would get to the meat of the findings that provide solutions to work overload. We just never quite got there.
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