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Many people work long hours, leaving very little time for family and leisure activities. Does this situation have more advantages or more disadvantages? Give the reason for your answer and include any relevant examples of your knowledge and experience.

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Nowdays
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, many individuals tend to
work
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or
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little
time
leaving
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to
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for
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 family and hobbies.
This
 essay will examine the advantages and disadvantages of
this
 statement and provide
logical
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 conclusion. The two main disadvantages of working long hours without spending
time
to
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with
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 your family or leisure activities are deterioration of mental health and
blightening
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brightening
lightening
tightening
 relationships with your children and family.
Firstly
, if
individual
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an individual
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spend
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spends
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 in
work
 a lot of
time
, he will be stressed anyway. Hobbies and leisure activities may help and provide
mental
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a mental
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pillow
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 to a person. Without any of
this
 individual can fall into depression with
further
 mental problems.
For instance
, according to
research
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the research
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of
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by
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 Harvard University approximately 60 per cent of employees in
United
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the United
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 States who do not have their own passion are most likely to fall into depression or even suicide.
Secondly
, because of strains of
work
 both
in
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female
or
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and
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 male, marriage could be divorced and relationships with children can blight.
For example
, according to Matt Davis from Toronto University about 26 per cent of marriages are divorced because of workload and lack of attention to children and their half. At the same
time
, long hours at
work
also
 have main advantages too,
such
 as career growth and social guarantees. Insurance for health,
guaranteed
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a guaranteed
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 pension, salary and et cetera. All of
this company
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these companies
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 provide to their employees. Meanwhile, human
being
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beings
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 if will
work
 hard enough can receive career growth. One
of
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illustration of
this
 is my father, he worked a lot at his company,
because
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and because
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 of
his
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the
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 hard
work
 he received a job that provides him with
high
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a high
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 salary and at the same
time
 he can spend enough
time
 with his family. To conclude,
although
 workload can have positive certain effects like career growth and social guarantees, it has
extremely
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an extremely
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 bad
influence
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influences
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to
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on
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life
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the life
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 of human
being
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beings
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 like
deterioration
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the deterioration
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 of mental health and bad relations with family. To my way of thinking drawbacks
outweight
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outweigh
benefits
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the benefits
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.
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