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Running head: THE WORKING HOURS SHOULD BE REDUCED
The working hours should be reduced
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1THE WORKING HOURS SHOULD BE REDUCED
Introduction
The essay has been prepared to discuss and argument on the various statements made
related to the longer hours of work for employees within the organizations. The first argument
states about the impact of longer hours of working on physical health conditions while the
remaining statements stated about the increased working hours creating adverse effects of mental
health and decline in business productivity too. To provide argumentative statements, it is to be
believed that the employees need to select their job roles according to their physical abilities and
at the same time, remain aware of the laws, rules and regulations that are implemented within the
workforce by regulatory bodies regarding limit to working hours.
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Long working hours: A physical problem
Based on various arguments and counterarguments, it has been found that long hours of
working by the employees or working overtime experience multiple physical problems. It
becomes difficult to overcome stress, lack of free time and improper work life balance and risks
associated with health conditions. The performance level also deteriorates and this could further
lead to tiredness, lack of energy at work for next day and poor attentive ability. Cardiovascular
problems and long-term smoking habits and alcohol; consumption further degraded the worker
performance and productivity (Smart et al. 2014). The employees nowadays are more concerned
in UK about maintaining careful work life balance while business organizations may also be
prone to declined performance from inflexible hours of working. As stated by Caruso (2014),
the longer working hours results in lower wages, places more demands on the employees and
even has affected business culture, which deteriorates its performance too (Caruso 2014).

2THE WORKING HOURS SHOULD BE REDUCED
As per the arguments of The Guardian, long working hours can cause physical problems.
While on the other hand, the physicians need to be provided liberty in terms of choosing the
workplace according to their physical conditions. This is in terms of complying with the harsh
(Fleming 2018) regulations, which shapes the workplace conditions. This allowance reflects the
liberty, which the employees in terms of exposing the skills, abilities and expertise.
However, according to some of the business critics, Zero Hours Contract deprive some of
the employees from the terms and conditions of the employment legislations. In this type of
contract, the employer is exempted from the provision of working hours. Along with this, the
workers are not compelled to expose acceptance towards the proposed offers.
Long working hours: a mental problem
Excessive time working at the office made people experience mental health issues, which
further contributed to hypertension, anxiety, depression, etc. The longer hours of working have
made people subject to harm such as work abseentism, not interested in the job roles and
decreased quality of life too. However, Hanna and Oliva (2015), on the other hand stated that
longer working hours at work can make people work and commit themselves more to the
organization and gain the desired outcomes. There are many cases where the employees have
worked for long and due to this, their performance has been at its peak, which directly impacts
business performance. There are no such major proofs that working longer could decline
productivity, rather the fact is working dedicatedly and in a committed manner holds more
responsibilities for the workers to perform their tasks.