Long Working Hours: The Most Important Results of the Scientific Project

Long working hours is a very actual topic influencing the competitiveness of post-industrial era companies. It is a topic that many companies must deal with and the results of our research can bring them the competitive edge. In our research we examined the long working hours from the perspective of physical and mental health and motivation. In this paper we covered the most important results of our scientific project. The research was conducted in the year 2014 on a sample of 166 individual respondents. Using the regression analysis we identified relation between working hours, quality of sleep and motivation as well as weakened immunity and workload. Implications of this paper are the identified hot spots that companies can address to achieve positive changes in examined areas.