Articles of category "Workaholia"

Workaholism is a modern term that means addiction to work. It may have severe physical, psychological and social consequences. Researchers have demonstrated that individuals with high scores on work addiction risk test, compared to others, perceive their families as having less effective problem-solving ability, worse communication, less affective involvement, and lowers general family functioning.

A workaholic has an addiction to work. This kind of addiction might bring pleasure to some people and may cause problems in others. A person who is a workaholic really has only one goal or objective in life and that is to work. His work does not not necessarily bring him satisfaction. It's just a thing without which the existence has no sense. But this is only one of the workaholic's problems. To understand the problem more fully is to understand Japanese "karoshi" as well.