Working 12 hours a day six days a week can permanently destroy the desire to wake up every morning and go to work. This was a situation I found myself in for two long years. In a previous company, managers were forced to work 72 hours a week, which completely overloaded the employees. According to research conducted by ABCNEWS (2015) 26% of employees said they work too much. This was 100% true while I was working as a correspondent in the oil fields. The division manager of this oil company refused to hire enough employees to reduce the workload on current exhausted employees. Workplace safety, performance and staff retention all suffer as a result of overworked employees. The company began experiencing a high turnover rate, which had an even greater impact on hours worked. It also saw a decline in morale, employee attendance and attitudes who suffered greatly from the impact of working so many hours. Barajas (2011) explains that work overload is about the gap between the tasks you are currently doing and what you should be doing. It suggests that this type of stress creates a lot of tension in the personal and work environment, which is exactly what the oil company was experiencing. The division manager failed to recognize that there was a problem with employee overwork and showed little consideration for the impact this would have on current employees. He took nothing into consideration and rarely responded