Posted on 09/26/2010 5:08:02 PM PDT by blam
Chinese White Collar Workers Are Burning Out At Five Times The U.S. Rate
Vincent Fernando, CFA
Sep. 26, 2010, 5:49 PM
As droves of Americans look for work, those still employed face heavy workloads and frequent bouts of burnout.
Well, China's modernizing in this regard as well, and in fact its white collar workers are experiencing a burnout rate which could be five times as high as in the U.S.
China Daily:
There are more depressed professionals than it appears on the surface, and they make themselves heard on online forums and bulletin boards such as douban.com.
Here, dozens of groups have been created to talk about giving up jobs in pursuit of "freedom".
...
Thirty percent of the 100,000-client base that Li's company has across China complain about work-related stress and burnout. It is an unusually high rate, given that the same comparative segment in the US is only around 6 percent.
The calls come from low-and mid-level management, the people usually sandwiched between senior officers who give orders and their subordinates, whom they have to coax into productivity.
They have to deal with long working hours, low job satisfaction, little control over their role at work and even less support from senior management.
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Friggin’ commie wimps.
Ya think its any different over here? 8<)
(No wonder we won the Korean War - even though outnumbered 5-1!
Did we win the Korean War? I would say it was more of a draw, when you look at how the Korean peninsula control is distributed.
Under capitalism you work as long as it takes to get the job done, if you screw up you can get fired, and the people who get the most accomplished do better than you. Noticeably.
The evidence is (1) the status of North Korea (2) the status of South Korea. We won. NK only won a food-less miserable jail cell for an entire nation.
It shows why 1706 should be repealed ASAP.
Don’t they have an unlimited supply?
They haven't discovered the secret of American middle management: substitute activity for productivity, take credit for the accomplishments of subordinates, 'kiss up and kick down', continuously be on the lookout for the next move and hope your incompetence doesn't catch up with you.
If we won there would be no North Korea.
>They have to deal with long working hours, low job satisfaction, little control over their role at work and even less support from senior management.
**
Yeah, that’s slavery. (sarc/) Damn whiners. Almost everyone here has worked cubicle jobs ala Office Space and hated it.
Old Russian proverb in the Communist years: Они симулируют платить нам, и мы симулируем работать, translated: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
substitute activity for productivity, take credit for the accomplishments of subordinates, ‘kiss up and kick down’, continuously be on the lookout for the next move and hope your incompetence doesn’t catch up with you.
Act presidential in other words.
Ri-i-ght! And that’s what it is, North Korea is a vapor-ware nation.
Sounds just like working at State Street Bank.
Sounds like we’ve both worked for the same company. Mid-level managers with absolutely no common sense nor any practical experience in the field they are supposed to be managing.
Life in China, while no materialy sufficient, is DIFFICULT.
In big cities, housing, education and food costs are rapidly increasing. There is no nature, only busy streets and air pollution. Work hours are long, and the majority of financial benefits go to owners (who are usually connected to the Gov’t in some way)
The Chinese view daughters as liabilities, but sons are able to earn, so are not. Combine that with a one-child-only policy, and female infanticide was the result... and now, with the introduction of Western technology, bringing hightech healthcare to the world to "save the human race", ultrasound technology is now used to evaluate sex-selective abortions.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.