'Flexible' Working Can Keep You Stressed Out For Longer, Lead to Illness (theguardian.com)

schwit1 sends news about the effects of flexible working schedules on the people who try them. Research has found that many employees fall into a "grazing" pattern for work — constantly being interrupted while working, and continuing to keep up with work emails when not — which results in having elevated stress levels for a longer period of time. This can make such workers more susceptible to illness, and it shows distinct biological consequences to having a poor work-life balance. Flexible working policies can also raise the risk of poor working conditions, and create resentment among colleagues ... The findings are a blow to advocates of more sophisticated measures for enabling people to achieve a work-life balance in rich economies that tend to overwork some people while underutilising millions of others. With an estimated 10m working days lost to work-related stress in the UK last year, finding a good balance between the demands of home and the job now dominates concerns about the impact of work on health.

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Re:Working vs. not working

[sumdumass]

That's by design. It is to keep a class of dependant voters and subsidizing businesses while maintaining the appearance they are not. Is it any wonder that before welfare was a government thing that a family could commonly survive off a single income? Or that medical expenses, while still hitting the pocket book hard, could largely be paid by these single income households before they inflated sky high after the introduction of Medicare?