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If going to work feels more like torture, and fatigue, depression and irritation are daily aspects of your life, job burnout may

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问题     If going to work feels more like torture, and fatigue, depression and irritation are daily aspects of your life, job burnout may be to blame. Too much office stress is putting a major strain on many professionals, according to Clare Chen, an analyst at Hudson Recruitment, a Nasdaq-listed headhunting firm. Along with booming business expansion and fast social transition, job burnout is pervasive in the Chinese mainland. In April, Hudson Recruitment surveyed 705 multinational companies in China—mostly based in Shanghai—about their hiring plans and employees. The survey showed that 33 percent of survey participants believe job burnout is getting more and more serious in the mainland. Last year, about 27 percent of respondents complained of being overworked.
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    The survey also indicates that practitioners in media, public relations, advertising, medical and biotechnology sectors are among the biggest sufferers of job burnout, as they not only work long hours but face pressures of stiffening job competition and constantly staying abreast of changes in their sectors. Meanwhile, women employees suffer more than their male counterparts, as 41.4 percent of the women surveyed report they are in a state of moderate job burnout, compared with 37.2 percent of men. Most people start feeling the most office stress after working for four years, which is much shorter than 10 years in the late 1990s, the chinaHRD, net survey says.
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    Turning down these extra hours is not a good career move, Zhang says. "If you refuse overtime, someone will do it and replace you", he says. However, Hudson’s report finds that a shortage of suitable talent is one of the reasons for increasing job burnout.
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    Internal competition for promotions, problems between colleagues, and work and life imbalances all contribute to psychological tension, which may result in accident or collapse, says Xu. "High-pressure work environments are taking their toll on workers’ morale", says Gary Lazzarotto, CEO of Hudson Asia. "This can be detrimental to both workers, whose health and career progress may suffer, and employers, who pick up the tab in higher insurance costs and lost productivity".
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    Furthermore, allowing time off for training will help facilitate employees’ know/edge and offer a cushion for intense work. France-based Schneider Electric invited IBM and Tsinghua University to formulate a leadership development programme for its managerial-level talents in China. The one-year programme will offer e-learning, classroom workshops, professional discussions and courses for 36 trainees selected from its China branch. It uses a model that combines academic training and business practices together, according to Amy Kan, a human resources director of Schneider Electric China.
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    Xu offers some advice for the job burnout employees: 1. Organize and prioritize by taking care of the more difficult and important tasks early in the day. 2. Have expectations so that you can achieve your goals and deliver on promises to others. 3. Set aside a period of time dedicated to responding to e-mail and voicemails. 4. Take care of yourself.

A. Hudson’s Chen says there are many factors contributing to the office stress. "Amid the fierce competition in the human resources (HR) market, employers have to work longer to cope with heavy workloads, receive last-minute missions constantly and are faced with work performance appraisals by bosses", says Chen. Zhang Xing, a consultant at a PR company, usually works 10 hours a day. But there are times when he works more than 12 hours a day, and Saturdays and Sundays sometimes become working days.
B. About 55 percent of respondents suggested they are working more hours than they were two years ago. Of those, 13 percent say their hours are significantly longer. About 42 percent of office workers surveyed said they worked more than 50 hours a week, compared with the country’s 40-hour-a-week standard. The number is about one percentage point higher than in last year’s survey, Hudson reports.
C. Dealing with the modern world "epidemic" of job burnout is a new challenge for both employers and employees. In developed nations, entrepreneurs commonly push a policy known as Work-Life Balance (WLB) to help employees work productively and better enjoy their lives. "If an employer finds an employee often works longer, the employer should ask if the executive-designed workload is too heavy for the employee or if there are some problems with the employee’s working efficiency", says Xu. "Then the employer or the employee should adjust".
D. The long working hours will greatly reduce working efficiency and productivity, both Chen and Zhang believe. In addition to physical exertion, psychological tension is another result of an overworked employee, points out Xu Xinxin, a researcher with the Sociology Research Institute attached to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
E. Paid leave is another way to ensure employees not to get worn out. "I find that many Chinese employees have not realized that it is their right to leave. They must keep in mind that we have a duty to work and have a fight to leave", says Lazzarotto. "A nice holiday can refresh you and do good for your company". He also suggests companies employ new measures to meet the headcount gap. "Employing and training cost can be compensated by employees’ higher productivity and guarantee a sound talent structure in the long run", he says.
F. By the early 1970s, hundreds of similar studies had followed Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live under stress worried over the reports. Somehow, the research got boiled down to a memorable message. Women’s magazines ran headlines like "Stress causes illness!" If you want to stay physically and mentally healthy, the articles said, avoid stressful events.

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答案E
解析 上一段讲到如何解决超时工作的问题，E段又做了进一步的补充。
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