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Dare to say NO to Additional Responsibilities at Work
Knowing when to say yes or no when you are assigned additional responsibilities at work.
Introduction
In this fast pacing world, projects and requirements tend to change from time to time. What have been agreed on previously might change in a day or two even if it is already etched in stone. As a result, workers are expected to work fast and deliver the expected minimum viable product in time to the stakeholders. Then, they will evaluate it, propose a new set of requirements and the next development cycle begins. Most of the time, the workers have to work long hours just to fulfill these requirements since the manpower is just not enough to cover everything due to cost cutting from the human resource department. On top of that, the external pressure paired with limited time constraints will result in crappy and non-reusable codes. As time goes by, maintaining the project becomes more and more difficult.
Recently, the term 996 work schedule is making waves in the social media. For those that are unfamiliar with this term, it started to gain popularity in China a while back where workers often starts working from 9am to 9pm everyday, 6 days a week resulting in at least 60 hours of work per week. Such long working hours is common in a few Asian countries such as Japan and Korea with slight…
