Melissa Clark at the University of Georgia did a meta study looking at a bunch of research on this and found that quote even though workaholics may spend more time thinking about and physically engaging in work than the average worker, this may not be of any benefit to their employer.

Well, that sucks.

It does. Well, I mean mean it's good to know. Well it's good to know because it

might mean that employers realize hey actually there's an incentive for us to teach people about this and have them not be

workaholics because that's actually just going to result in health problems and

not actually more productivity for us. So it'd be better for us to discourage workahollism and help people not do that so we have

healthier, happier workers doing the same amount of work. And if you are your

own boss, gig work or running your own business or whatever it is, you as the boss can remember

that encouraging you the employee to be a workaholic is not actually going to help you. And that's still a struggle for me.

And as I mentioned, was just talking to my therapist about this,

where she's like, do you think that you may have workaholic tendencies?

And I was like,

oh boy, let me tell you all about it.

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on relationships. Many of us in Western society, especially the United States,

pride ourselves on working hard, never taking a break,

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