If the employment institution wants to transfer us to another location, we go, without very much serious thought about what the move will do to our family. If a promotion is available, we take it, without much consideration of how the new responsibility or new hours will affect family. We've become a society that lives to work rather than working to live. Also, in their obsession for self-preservation and profit, the work institutions of today are into downsizing, cutbacks, force reductions and compensation restructuring which have everything to do with the bottom line but nothing to do with responsibility to the families of employees. Yet in supreme irony, corporate America is ravaging families in all sorts of unprecedented ways.
Insecurity is at an all-time high.
Downsizing and layoffs loom as a constant threat. Work days and work weeks are getting longer. Top executives' pay goes up dramatically even as companies downsize. That trend, and the constant increases in pay and perks to top management, continues as we start a new millennium. With all the talk we hear about a kinder corporate America offering flexible work schedules and other stress-busting programs, most companies still go by the old rules.