Never Not Working

What is workaholism and why is it a problem? In this book, Malissa Clark, an associate professor of industrial-organizational psychology at the University of Georgia and the Director of the Healthy Work Lab, deconstructs several commonly held beliefs about overcommitted employees. She demonstrates that an addiction to work is not only counter-productive for individuals, by amplifying psychosocial risks, but also detrimental for organizations, by generating managerial difficulties and a drop in efficiency over time. The first chapters focus on refuting the myths that valorize these behaviors: an overcommitted employee does not always contribute to better performance. They also establish a typology of profiles at risk of workaholism. The following chapters analyze the organizational factors that foster excesses, then offer countermeasures.