20 Ways Your Workplace Is The Worst Place To Work

Your job is pretty much a pit of stress, procrastination, and death.
20 Ways Your Workplace Is The Worst Place To Work

The big wigs at your place of employment like to think they have it all figured out -- especially when it comes to their employees. Decades and decades of society running the rat race have given us deep insight into the workplace and all the right solutions for when things aren't going right.

Except that all of those solutions are pretty much bullshit and have turned jobs into a never-ending spiral of stress and counterproductivity that'll put us all in an early grave.

(As always, thanks to AuntieMeme for the voodoo she works putting these together.)

If you do well at work, you'll get a nice, quiet office. You'd be better off at a coffee shop. Think of your brain as a jeep. When it has a smooth roa
Sitting all day is bad for you, SO now there's the standing desk. Which, as it turns out, is also bad for you. Standing all day is exhausting. On top
Your boss wants you to show up rested every day. But you do better work when you're tired. Scientists found that people who were tested during their l
Excited about your flexible, rotating-shift job? It could be ruining your body and your mind. Shift work can lead to heart disease, ulcers, obesity, d
When you're at work, you shouldn't be thinking about seX. Unless you need to think logically. Scientists have found that thinking about sex stimulates
Today's workplace is geared toward multitasking. Unfortunately, your brain isn't. Neuroscientists claim that, for the most part, multitasking is physi
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Got a creative team? You'll want to give them an open office. Don't. That's the worst setup for creative types. Open-office layouts, with their large,
Good team players check their sarcasm at the door. Which is killing workplace creativity. Scientists have found that sarcasm actually boosts your crea
All that equipment sure makes your workplace efficient. Too bad it's also poisoning the air. Specifically, the copy machine and laser printer give off

Office Life

Those bright lights at your office sure do keep you alert. Actually, they're making you tired. The use of fluorescent lights and/or over-illumination
A good business makes sure its employees have the latest tech. Which completely throws them off. When an office provides its workers with new equipmen

Email

The ability to get work mail anywhere should boost productivity. But actually, it does the opposite. The 24/7 workplace sounds great on paper: Even wh

Working Overtime

Working overtime is great, because of all the extra money. It's also a lot of extra deadly. That's not hyperbole. People who work 11-hour days run a 6
Your commute is annoying but not doing you any harm, right? Actually, it's messing you up pretty badly. People who travel more than 30 minutes to work
Know what gets employees motivated? Team-building. Motivated to look for a different job. Surveys show that team-based retreats and activities designe
Want to get some work done? Try telecommuting. You still might not get anything done. While 86 percent of respondents to a Harris poll said they prefe
Email is an essential tool for business communication. S And it's a terrible way to communicate. Email is practically tailor-made for creating misunde
Your manager probably gives you motivational pep talks. Which have been shown to cause depression. It's very common for modern companies to devote mee
Want to get some work done? Call a meeting. Which is the opposite of getting work done. According to business productivity guru Jason Fried, meetings

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