How to treat the phenomenon of "excessive overtime"?

When analyzing the phenomenon of "excessive overtime" from my professional perspective, I can discuss it in more detail in the following aspects:

1. Job burnout: Excessive overtime may lead to job burnout, including emotional exhaustion, conflict with work, and reduced sense of job accomplishment. Long-term excessive overtime will make individuals feel tired, depressed, lose interest in work, and then affect job performance and job satisfaction.

2. Meaning and happiness in life: Psychological research shows that the pursuit of meaning and happiness in life is the basis of mental health and satisfaction. However, excessive overtime may weaken the individual's cognition and pursuit of the meaning of life, make work the main support of individual life, and ignore other important areas of life, thus affecting the overall psychological well-being.

3. Self-worth and self-esteem: Overtime work may reduce one's self-worth and self-esteem. When individuals work overtime for a long time and have little chance to choose time and charge, they may have doubts about their abilities and think that they only exist for work and cannot realize their true value and potential.

4. Mental health problems: Excessive overtime may increase the risk of personal mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. Long-term overload of work pressure and tension may lead to physical and mental fatigue, emotional fluctuations and decreased resistance, and then induce or aggravate mental health problems.

5. Work environment and leadership support: In addition to personal factors, the influence of work environment and leadership support on "excessive overtime" is also crucial. Good working environment and leadership support can reduce personal work pressure, provide reasonable work allocation and time management strategies, and increase job satisfaction and happiness.

Therefore, we need to realize the potential impact of "excessive overtime" on individual mental health and take corresponding measures to alleviate the negative impact of excessive overtime. These measures may include reasonable arrangement of working hours and assignment of tasks, provision of mental health support services, encouraging employees to participate in interesting leisure activities, and establishing a positive and healthy working culture and environment.