Excessive working hours and moral harassment: its impacts on workers’ mental health

Abstract

The present study sought to carry out a brief analysis of excessive working hours and moral harassment, with the general objective of understanding the impacts caused by excessive working hours and moral harassment on workers' mental health based on an experience report. From this, the following question arose: How do excessive work and moral harassment influence workers' mental health within the work environment? To carry out this study, we followed the methodological path in which theoretical-bibliographical research was used, in order to critically and socio-historically understand the phenomenon of work and working hours, as well as their construction in society over time. . The research was carried out by searching for works by authors who contributed to the topic on the academic platforms Google and Sciello using the descriptors: working hours; mental illness; excessive working hours; and moral harassment at work. We carry out brief analyzes of work, mental illness in the workplace, its impacts on the worker, laws that guarantee worker assistance, mental illness, moral harassment and its relationship with excessive working hours, debating how the hostile environment interferes in good professional development and lists how to act in order to face these issues. Finally, we understand that most workers do not realize that they are in the middle of a game of interests, influenced to always be in competition with others and ensuring the best performance of the company.