The World of Work

This essay explores the implications of work and the working environment on social, physical, and psychological well-being. It discusses the social impacts of working, including socialization and recognition. It also examines the physical impacts, such as health issues and burnout. Additionally, it delves into the psychological impacts, including changes in attitude and focus. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of work-life balance and adding meaning to life beyond just earning a livelihood.

The World of Work

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Working is regarded as an important part of livelihood and the survival for human beings
as well, in the society, ever since humans are present on the earth. The working here does not
mean that an individual is expected to do anything, but working for survival means that work is
expected to add some value and some quality in life. The work here means, basically source of
income. In history, nature of work been done for earning income, had been seen in very
sustained and limited to basic necessities of life. But by the time, the society progressed and
economic growth fostered, so does the income levels of people, leading to increase in demand of
people, many new opportunities had been created. At present time, an individual can see many
range of occupations and profession in which people are engaged in earning their survival, where
some can also be noticed in satisfying needs of present only (Benabou, 1993).
As one goes on noticing these varied range of activities, performed by human being to
earn their survival, it is also understandable that these activities will also be having many
implications on those human as well. In this essay such implications of work and working
environment had been evaluated.
MAIN BODY
Ever since ne look at the time and can make understanding of the human survival on this
planet, one can notice that working or better be saying the working to earn money is necessitated
by many conditions. It has always be important and imperative for people to work and work in
order to earn money for themselves. As, it is a well known and well established and understood
fact that for earning and gaining something it is important that someone has to lose something
and to sacrifice something, and this is the similar concept with working. A human being, in order
to earn income and continue its survival, has to put time, efforts and energy in the work. This ha
been the social order, or can be called as the order of survival for people, not since from few or
many years but from decades and centuries. However, it has been seen that manner of working
and earning livelihood had changed for people. a new social fabric had been developed that is
more developed, encouraging, dynamic and rapid as well. The manner in which this all had
developed and changed in United Kingdom, and also in the world around, can better be

understood if one goes on looking at the history of work and working culture. However, it will
be better to refer it in the manner that manner of earning and securing livelihood has changed for
people (Morris, 1990).
In the earlier lifestyles of people, not getting too far for understanding, bit since looking
at the starting of 1st AD itself, can easily avail this fact that in the earlier lifestyles people used to
work just for earning a sustained lifestyles. They could not appear to be too ambitious for
anything in life and they were just striving for fulfilling basic needs of life. Looking at the
occupations they were engaged in life, then it can easily noticed that the occupations were also
majorly those one and the production was also restricted to those things that can be used in the
households majorly, and can little be sold in the market, so that some can be used by domestic
consumers and the other can be exported. In this way, people in earlier times had been seen
earning a sustained manner of earning. And, they were majorly producing for personal needs.
But, the sustained manner of earning loving never stopped an created the boundaries for the
minds of human being, and the human being was always oriented to the idea of progress, where
he wanted to reach the zenith earn more and become more powerful, and therefore, new idea for
earning livelihood,, increase the income levels and add quality to the lifestyles had always
prevailed in the mind of human being (Abdiev and et.al., 2020). Some historian regards it that
human had always been driven by level of greed, but in economics, all such ideas and
developments had opened doors or economic growth and progress, that raised human capacity.
The major influence of this progress and new orders was first seen at the time of 1st industrial
revolution.
As it has been wonderfully remarked that scientific and economic progress are always
seen going hand in hand. That later impact the social progress also, then at the time first
Industrial revolution similar case has happened. Many new scientific inventions like Steam
Engine and Spinning Jenny and many more, like new shaped Plough, were very supportive in
changing this order of economic progress where human growth and progress found many new
opportunities. Opportunities from these inventions were very well remarked and availed by
human beings and they used them also in best possible manner. Like steam engines changed
direction of industrial progress, and the newly shaped plough changed manner of many primary
activities as well, like agriculture (Madden and et.al., 2020). All such developments availed

many new directions, and ever since these doors of progress got opened and new wave or blow
was given to minds of human, the chain of progress never stopped and it went on.
The facts of this can be easily gauged from numerous developments that are seen being
made in today’s world. Many new and rapidly changing scenarios of modern knowledge and
science have given ways and waves to further economic progress. But, looking at the scenarios,
from history to modern world, one can notice it very easily, that every development, whether
scientific or industrial or regarding policies, and the implementation of these developments, it all
requires will of human being, the crucial minds behind these developments and those efforts that
are physical in implementing them requires humans, that are willing to work, contribute in the
progress and earn some personal gains as well. there has to work. Now, as human being are very
subjective and even when they work, they are motivated by many influences, and also many
situations get created around them (Sekizuka and Miyake, 2018). For understanding the level or
manner of development and to channelize the developments in best order possible,, where
benefits can be derived by everyone, not equally but equitably, it is important that condition of
working class be also comprehended. Following discussion in this essay is focused on different
implications that working population have from work, in social, physical and Psychological
manner.
Social Impacts of working
If one gives on understanding the social impacts of working is derived on human beings,
than one should most obviously try to understand those impacts that are created on the status of
well being of individual. If from a particular work or the working condition, an individual is
seeming to improve status in its well being, then it can be said that social impacts are good, and
if social impacts are deteriorating lifestyle development, and deteriorating well being in different
respects than it can be said that, an individual is adding no quality to life and social conditions
are well worsening for them. The impact over social well being can be understand from the
following points, in better manner.
 Through working an earning survival, an individual does not only make progress in
income level, but progress in social interaction and socialization is also made by a person.
First of all, through working a individual builds his own stature and level, that gets duly

recognized by other as well, and they look at that person in a sense of respect, that
individual is doing something productive in life. And, looking from point of view of that
individual it can be gauged that communication skills and an understanding of reading
minds of people and behaving with them gets developed in that individual which further
adds values in socialization of person.
 These socialization standards for sure helps in well being of individual, together with a
sense that individual is able to do something and give productivity to its lifestyle, all such
aspects helps boost in that individual, where can be seen giving meaning to its life. And,
thus overall well being of individual is seen improving.
 Also, there are many adverse impacts of this working, and these negative impacts gets
best discovered when individual rather than taking their work as part of life, consider that
as the life itself. And, thus they end on burning out themselves. These circumstances
create some negative implication on their well being.
Physical impacts of working
Physical impacts of working are directly associated with the health of individuals. As it
has been discussed that, people driven by their zeal and ambitions, tends to establish their work
as their life, and under the influence of this tendency they attract some severe implications of
well being. Under social well being created by this tendency of individuals falls some
mismanagement and unrest in personal and social behavior, but under the physical implications
of this tendency, there are seen challenges related to health of these individuals. The physical
implications of working can better be understood from these following facts.
 As it was understood that driven by the zeal to work and make more and more income,
people are seen burning out themselves with the work, and they do not pay attention to
their health. Age just pass out in working and earning money, and then earned money is
spent totally over recovering health, and get some possibility of continue living. They get
driven by material wealth and do not pay attention to real wealth.
 Also, there had been cases that in the lime of being in limelight and become more
economically prosperous, people are seen losing their mental well being the most and the

cases related here are much more severe than anything else. People develop mental
disorders, at some young stages as well, and their rest of the life just gets vanished. These
type of disorders are something that are irrecoverable mostly. And, through the stress and
pressure that individual takes while working creates mental disorders in them, of which
Depression is the most frequently seen disease.
Psychological impacts of working
Psychological impact of working desperately and really hard, can create long term
psychological impacts over the mind of people. Sometimes, psychological impacts are
misunderstood with physical and health related impacts, but they ate not. Under psychological,
the clear mentality of people is seen changing completely. In these psychological impacts, people
gets their attitude changed completely, they become too much focused in career that rest of other
things, like relations and many other emotional aspects of life seems to them as useless. And,
when they come at such point of life, where emotions are required, and caring is imperative, they
found themselves alone with huge sums of money (Mehboob, Arif and Arif, 2020).

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that, working for earning a good
livelihood is indeed a very essential activity of life, but still it is a part of life and not the life
itself. People that are seen getting too much attached with their work, that they consider as
product of them being too much ambitious and demanding something else from their life, that is
really productive, are seen unable to catch the actual product of life, and do forget to live in the
zeal of earning just a livelihood. People nowadays are required to believe that besides availing
some sort of meaning from life, they should try and give a meaning to their life. They should do
such activities through which real values are added to their life.

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