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Trading your one life for someone else's quarterly earnings call.
means To work beyond a healthy or reasonable limit, so the job keeps taking hours and health long after it's stopped giving enough back.
from A simple, old Germanic compound — 'over' (beyond, too much) plus 'work,' both words going back over a thousand years in English. No hidden story here: it means exactly what it looks like, piling 'too much' onto 'labor.' The verb has been doing this plain, literal job since at least Old English, long before anyone had a quarterly earnings call to blame.
- origin
- from middle english, literally means work past the point of use
- productivity myth
- output drops sharply after 50 hours weekly
- japan term
- karoshi literally means death from overwork
- irony
- burnout makes you slower, not more impressive