You May Be a Workaholic If

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🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, draws a distinction between workaholism and working long hours. She explains the health consequences of being addicted to your work. She also gives practical advice for managing work addiction, whether it’s you who’s suffering, your direct report, boss, peer, or partner. Rothbard is the coauthor of the HBR article "How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health."

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0:00.0	How do you navigate gender in your workplace?
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0:15.0	Women at Work, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBO Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Kermichael.
0:37.0	Have you ever wondered if you're a workaholic?
0:45.0	Researchers at the University of Bergen came up with a test to help you figure that out.
0:50.0	It's called the Bergen Work Addiction Scale.
0:53.0	The way it works is you react to seven statements.
0:56.0	And if you say that you often or always do at least four of these things,
1:00.0	then you might be a workaholic.
1:02.0	So I'm going to read the seven statements and just
1:04.8	keep track of how many times you're saying, oh I often do that or I always do that. I will
1:09.8	keep note as I go along with you and then we can see how we compare.
1:14.0	Number one, you think of how you can free up more time to work.
1:18.0	Number two, you spend much more time working than initially intended.
1:23.5	Number three, you work in order to reduce feelings of guilt, anxiety, helplessness, and depression.
1:31.2	Number four, you have been told by others to cut down on work without listening to them.
1:37.0	Number five, you become stressed if you are prohibited from working.
1:41.0	Number six, you deprioritize hobbies, leisure activities, and exercise
1:45.9	because of your work. Number seven, you work so much that it has negatively influenced
1:51.7	your health.
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