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Try This If You Can’t Stop Working at Night
Why are you actually stuck in this loop?
A survey with 10,000 respondents showed that Americans devote about 35% of their time savings to their primary jobs. And most of us save a lot of time during a pandemic.
While most articles focus on the mental toll of work and stress, I hardly hear people talking about the physical toll of knowledge work. Of course, it’s not comparable to manual labor.
But still, too much desk work also leads to physical issues.
The truth is that some of us find it difficult to stop working all day. We trick ourselves into believing that “I’m not doing any manual labor, so I can work all day.”
A study from RescueTime, a popular time-tracking app, showed that 40% of their users were working at night (they were active on their computers after 10 PM). And that was before the pandemic.
It doesn’t matter what the reason is that you work a lot. Maybe you simply love your work so much you can’t stop.
For most of us, there’s an inverse relationship between the number of hours we work and the effects it has on our lives.
