Take Stock Of Five New High-Risk Groups In The Workplace

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What made the once bright crowd suffer from unprecedented physical and mental pressure to become a "high-risk group"?

China intelligence resources

For workplace employees, Feng Lijuan, a human resource expert from the future, suggests: "before entering an industry, people in the workplace should be very good at assessing their physical condition and mental capacity to adapt to the pressure of the industry, instead of just going to the bright appearance of the industry."

When you feel pressure, you need to adjust your rhythm well and brake in time.

Indeed, extreme cases of overwork, desperation and suicide are no longer confined to traditional high-risk industries such as front-line workers in manufacturing, pportation workers, etc.

Decent people, such as financial industry, consulting industry, advertising industry, media industry and high technology industry, are working overtime, high intensity mental work, overdrawn physical health, and sacrificed family life.

1 financial industry

In the eyes of outsiders, the financial industry is unpredictable and the industry has brought together many cattle.

When the stock index goes up and down, the cattle are playing the conductor's hands, and hundreds of millions of millions of funds are flowing into the market.

As an industry with the highest salary, the financial industry has always been coveted by job seekers.

The latest national average wage in 2010 released by the National Bureau of statistics shows that the financial sector ranks first again with 80772 yuan.

Some investment bank employees, securities fund managers and other annual salary is over million.

But high returns also mean high risk. High risk means that a fortified castle, such as Lehman, will collapse overnight. In 2008, the financial turmoil in Wall Street is still vivid. A large number of financial personnel are unemployed, and some are unable to fight or even commit suicide.

"Every day watching the trend of the market regardless of the time difference, there is no clear time to work, and the next class is also worried about what companies and what scandals and incidents have happened, and is afraid that what new macro-control policies the country will suddenly introduce will cause the stock market to fluctuate."

A fund manager admits.

Not long ago, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, China Hospital Association and other agencies launched the "financial health survey of Chinese financiers". The results showed that the average working hours of financial workers were more than 12 hours a day, of which 72.8% of employees said they were "at any time in a state of high pressure, causing depression and no pleasure."

And in the financial industry, the link between work and performance is extremely obvious.

The basic wage is low, and the income can only be increased by commission and royalty, which is especially important for the starting employees.

Ms. Kong, who worked for a securities company in Chongqing last year, complained to the newspaper reporter: "the risk of unemployment has recently been faced with, because the performance is not good enough to meet the requirements of the company's opening account.

The pressure of the index is too great, and I don't want to do it. "

Over emphasis on income instability resulting from performance, accompanying mental stress and anxiety, and failure of investment caused by uncontrollable uncertainty in the market are the real portrayal of financial personnel.

2 consulting industry

Whether wages or development space, the consulting industry and the financial sector have the same high attractiveness.

Then many of the people who walked into the besieged city found that the bitterness of the city was far from what the people outside the city could imagine.

"Not on overtime, but on overtime."

For employees in the consulting industry, this sentence is not just ridicule, but the normal state of their lives.

In order to catch up with the urgent project work, high - intensity mental labor, long face to the computer, lack of exercise and cause health to light the red light, etc. are both physical and mental pressure on the staff of the consulting industry.

A consultant in management told the reporter: "just after 2~4 weeks of work to complete a project to rest, the second projects are ready to start, for several days or even weeks of work for more than 12 hours a day.

I dare not ask for a rest, for fear of affecting my seat and promotion.

And travel a lot, sometimes flying around for one or two weeks in a row. "

But young life can not afford to be overdrawn.

"I will hear from time to time that the staff of a firm are killed or overworked. There are also colleagues who fainted on overtime, and more people in the industry are divorced from their loved ones because of the lack of time to take care of their families. Sometimes, after a check-up, a number of colleagues will be found to be away from their posts.

The consultant said.

The four big accounting firms and law firms, including consulting firms, have long been known for their work intensity.

In the four major work, the auditor told the newspaper reporter: "during the busy season, we work overtime all night, and work 100 hours a week. In order to increase the rate of return on projects, we often make overtime work in disguise.

The money we earn is much lower than the cost of the work we pay, and there is no time to spend. "

3 media industry

Journalists who run with news and time are always on the frontline of events. They do not have regular schedules and need to be as close as possible to the truth in the first time, which makes most reporters at a time of stress and mental tension. They need to be ready at all times, to start immediately or even to have no fixed place in emergencies.

Editors at the rear must also pay close attention to the progress of the matter, staring at the computer every day, paying attention to the current political information around the world, for fear of missing some important clues.

Night shift editors also need to reverse day and night before returning home from work in the early morning, which makes them unable to get along and communicate with their family members and friends.

In the ten major health overdraft survey released by Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the media industry is suffering from serious health overdraft due to heavy working hours and less exercise time.

Employees were ranked the top five in terms of health overdraft.

For many outsiders who do not understand the media industry, journalists and editors are decent jobs, but only the media practitioners can understand the heavy burden of this work, sometimes because of a sense of responsibility and even make their lives in a dangerous situation.

"One of our reporters secretly visited an institution on the spot and had plenty of evidence that it was an empty shell and then disclosed it in the newspaper. But now the reporter is also suffering from harassment and threats from gangs sent by the other side."

A senior editor of a newspaper said to our reporter.

Similar cases are numerous in the industry. Many journalists rushed to the front to investigate and collect evidence, even under the house arrest of local authorities. They were abused, threatened or even beaten.

And the photographers who are in danger in major disaster areas are unable to ensure safety.

The latest report on job seekers website careercast.com, which is the most stressful and least stressful, shows that the media industry accounts for the most in high pressure occupations, especially the public relations commissioner who deals with emergencies.

For most journalists, there are common problems in the body, such as no regular diet and rest, long time to computer, serious lack of sleep and excessive physical and mental stress.

The case of early death in the industry also occurs frequently.

4 advertising industry

"Cherish life and stay away from advertising" is not a slogan for prank, but a heartfelt saying that just escaped from 4A.

In the advertising industry, 4A has always been a gorgeous castle for practitioners to aspire to. Joining these companies means that you will work with a group of highly creative masters who are brilliant, unique, and rebellious.

At the same time, because of the rich customer resources, entering 4A also means that you have more opportunities than ordinary people to realize their own creativity, and put one's thoughts and pictures into reality.

Small to shampoo, bath liquid advertising, large national image promo, where you will be more likely to achieve the ideal.

But "Cheng is also creative, but also creative."

Feng Lijuan pointed out: "because the advertising industry needs constant innovation and breakthroughs, it is difficult for customers to feel satisfied. As with the design itself, advertising creativity is also very outdated, and their intelligence and physical strength are very demanding. Creativity has become their biggest source of stress.

Once the advertiser is not satisfied with the cancellation, you are also facing the possibility of being dismissed.

If you want to work with designers, you should also try to compress costs, otherwise Party A is not satisfied, and you should communicate with Party A in a timely manner. Once you go to work on Friday until Sunday noon, you don't have eye contact in the middle. Basically, you sleep less than four hours a day, and there is no overtime pay, and salary is related to projects.

An advertising planner told our reporter.

Another person who is preparing to withdraw from the advertising industry admits: "advertising companies often work overtime without pay, no overtime pay, no subsidy, and the salary of 10 thousand yuan is really not high.

But really, I can't bear to leave this circle, and I want to be happy with a group of people who have fantastic ideas.

Because of the fact that they often work overtime and are crazy about creativity, they are also in an unstable state of health.

In the "ten most serious overdraft industries in China", advertising and manual labor and pportation are among the top ten.

Among them, 40% of the advertising staff were dyslipidemia and 25.30% of them had poor gastrointestinal condition.

5 high-tech industry

At the age of 26, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, ranked first in the list of Forbes's youngest rich with 6 billion 900 million dollars.

Recently, China Renren has also successfully listed on the NYSE, with a market value of more than 8 billion US dollars.

From Sina, Sohu, Alibaba to Youku and so on, the high-tech industry, including the Internet, is well deserved to become a "dream workshop" for young entrepreneurs.

Traditionally, IT posts such as information pmission, computer services and software have always been popular among young people. As a medium and high income industry, IT industry has strong attraction for talents.

However, with the intensification of fierce competition and the continuous shortening of the product life cycle, the high-tech industries such as the Internet and IT are more and more focused on R & D and sales in the professional field. The R & D personnel and sales personnel in the industry are also faced with great competition pressure.

In order to overcome technical difficulties within the required time, developers are developing nervously, and overtime every day is a regular meal.

IT, who is designing a software for human resource management system for a company, said to the reporter: "the other company requires us to complete within three months, even harsh to the completion of R & D, commissioning, implementation and implementation. The team must constantly communicate with them and design the processes they want. In order to catch up with the progress of work, we have to work overtime and work at 10:11 PM."

Besides working long hours, professional knowledge has also become the source of pressure in the industry.

In the field of high technology, technology is rapidly updated. In order not to be eliminated, employees must constantly learn and accumulate.

Moreover, in order to design the software that the customer needs faster and better, we need to know the knowledge of learning the domain of the customer.

"At the busiest time of the project, we have to prepare the skills test for the company, and go to work late at night, but it will not affect future promotion and development."

The staff said helplessly.