Only 21% of companies care that you’re working too hard

There's a weird dichotomy here between startups and established companies. The hivemind says that the more hours you spend on your startup, the better. If you have 16 waking hours a day, nobody would tell you to spend just 8 of them on your startup. Yet if you work at an established company and your day is longer than, say, 10 hours, you're doing it wrong.<p>Brutal hours produce burnout, and I suppose the idea when doing a startup is to work hours that you know will eventually burn you out badly, but just hope that your company makes the big time before then. But in a bunch of ways, especially if you're going for a lifestyle business, that doesn't seem advisable.

<i>taking actions to reduce stress due to excessive workload and long hours</i><p>That's not really caring that you're working too hard, or trying to fix the problem that you're working too hard. That sounds like trying to make you less angry about working too hard.

<i>only 21% of companies take actions to reduce stress caused by excessive work.</i><p>21%? I would have thought the number was less than 10%.<p>I would say that 95% of companies take actions to <i>increase stress caused by excessive work</i> by letting people overpromise on deliverables.

maybe a list of such companies should be published - to let prospective employees know where their long term health would be taken into account :)

If only 10% of all companies work employees too hard, that means we're achieving 210% care-i-tude!<p>Seriously, though, a lot of companies may discourage people working longer than 9-5, which accomplishes the same goal but would be "uncaring" by your definition.

I think working on your startup are hours spent working towards a greater potential outcome than hours spent working in a corporation. There's more of a reward (sometimes) to starting your own company.

This is an illustration of Sturgeon's Law.