In the era of workers quiet quitting, demanding their right to disconnect and working from home — how can work addiction be 'one of the most important challenges in organisational psychology and public health in the 21st century'?
One of the real pleasures of the work I do is being asked to hand out awards at annual industry celebrations to bright-faced, unsuspecting employees — often young, often women — at big dinners at large city hotels.
If they are managers coming up to the microphone, you know the good ones immediately: their speech is all about the team they lead, with meaningful detail about the people they glow with pride over. I know it sounds hokey — but I just love these events, and I think you can tell a lot about an industry by the calibre of people who come to the flood-lit stage and either diffidently or happily receive their statue.
In Australia, about 24 per cent of the more than 1,300 research participants reported being addicted to work, the study found.One in four Australians could be addicted to work, preliminary results from a survey show. Globally, women are more at risk. Yes, my head is spinning too — because these conclusions are, to me, counter-intuitive to the point of disbelief.— how can work addiction be "one of the most important challenges in organisational psychology and public health in the 21st century"?I remember these cultures well, but I had assumed they had all faded away.
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