{"id":697,"date":"2020-12-14T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/?post_type=article&#038;p=697"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:50:55","slug":"interesting-reads","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/article\/interesting-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline-container\">\n<h1 class=\"article-hed\">The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-byline detached\"><span class=\"by-prefix\">by <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1rem;letter-spacing: 0px\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=sarah%20green%20carmichael\">Sarah Green Carmichael<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-byline detached\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If your job relies on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/12\/working-too-hard-makes-leading-more-difficult\">interpersonal communication, making judgment calls, reading other people\u2019s faces, or managing your own emotional reactions<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 pretty much all things that the modern office requires \u2014 I have more bad news. Researchers\u00a0have found that\u00a0overwork (and its\u00a0accompanying stress and exhaustion) can make all of these things more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you enjoy your job and work long hours voluntarily, you\u2019re\u00a0simply more likely to make mistakes when you\u2019re tired \u2014 and\u00a0most of us tire more easily than we think we do.\u00a0Only 1-3%\u00a0of the population can sleep\u00a0five or six hours a night\u00a0without suffering some performance drop-off. Moreover, for every 100 people who think they\u2019re a member of this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748703712504576242701752957910\">sleepless elite<\/a>, only five actually are. The research on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2006\/10\/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer\">performance-destroying effects of sleeplessness<\/a>\u00a0alone should make everyone\u00a0see the folly of the all-nighter.<\/p>\n<p>Work too hard and you also lose sight of the bigger picture. Research has suggested that as we burn out,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/08\/schedule-a-15-minute-break-before-you-burn-out\/\">we have a greater tendency to get lost in the weeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/08\/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-backfire-for-people-and-for-companies?utm_campaign=hbr&amp;utm_source=linkedin&amp;utm_medium=social\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies by Sarah Green Carmichael &nbsp; If your job relies on\u00a0interpersonal communication, making judgment calls, reading other people\u2019s faces, or managing your own emotional reactions\u00a0\u2014 pretty much all things that the modern office requires \u2014 I have more bad news. Researchers\u00a0have found that\u00a0overwork (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-697","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}