Once Work Hours are Over, Leave Your Work and Head Home

Unless you’re getting paid for working overtime and you have strong reasons to stay, you can’t allow your job to be the priority. Once the clock hits the end of the office hours, you need to stand up and go home. There’s no need for you to get things done within the same day. You still have many things to attend to at home. You also need enough time to rest. Don’t allow yourself to be consumed by work. 

You can’t give everything up for work

You need to have a life outside your job. Yes, you’re lucky that you have a job and you’re getting paid well. However, it doesn’t mean you should go beyond what’s expected of you after work hours. You can work as hard as you wish during the 8-hour work period, but it doesn’t make sense to keep working beyond that time. 

You have a family to bond with. You also need to have enough time for yourself. When work consumes your entire time, the other aspects might be sacrificed and you don’t want it to happen. 

Your employers don’t care about what you’re doing

Again, you should only think about after office hours if you’re getting an overtime pay. If not, there’s no point in doing so. You might think that your employer cares about you and appreciates your efforts to stay up late. The truth is that your employer might not even know that you decided to stay. It’s even worse if you work hard because you’re eyeing for a promotion and it didn’t go to you. If you’re that good, you will receive that promotion regardless of the number of hours you stay at work. In fact, it could go against you if you’re always working overtime to finish work. It shows that you’re either incompetent or terrible in time management. Either way, you’re in a terrible shape as you gun for that promotion. 

You need to recharge

Yup might think that you’re doing yourself a favor by always working late. You also believe that you’re getting things done faster because you spend more time for work. The truth is that you also need a break. Failure to do so could stress you out. Your productivity might even be affected in the process. Even if you get things done, your output might be of poor quality. Therefore, you have to leave work right away so you can go to the gym or take a power nap. 

You’re dispensable

You think that just because you’re working hard means that your job tenure is safe. The reality is that just like any other jobs, yours is dispensable. It’s possible that someone better will take your place. The company might also be sold to a different owner and that owner will fire your entire team. You might also be in a dying industry so there’s really no security. 

Given these reasons, you have to be wise and leave your work as soon as time is up.

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