NEW YORK: Overworked and stressed-out new hires at the Goldman Sachs investment bank are asking that their work week be limited — to 80 hours.
They made their case in an 11-page, official looking presentation of the kind the bank would prepare for a client, complete with statistics and graphs.
It stems from a poll of 13 first-year Goldman Sachs employees who said they have worked an average of 98 hours a week since the beginning of the year and generally go to bed around 3am.
They said their physical and mental health are suffering: 77% said they are “victims of workplace abuse.”
“I can’t sleep anymore because my anxiety levels are through the roof,” one worker says in the presentation.
“I didn’t come into this job expecting……
