A sociologist took a critical look at the cherished career advice to ‘follow your passion.’ What she found is that this advice often brings unintended consequences.
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Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
Feeling exhausted, unable to concentrate and wanting to withdraw and disconnect from the world and those around you? You could be heading towards burnout.
‘Workaholics’ are driven to work excessively, even despite the negative impact this has on health.
We’ve tested the claim that overworkers have no choice, and found it wanting.
A new French study shows people who regularly work ten-hour days have a 29% greater risk of having a stroke than their peers. Long hours also affect your relationships, sleep and mental health.
Has anyone close to you asked you to cut down on your work? Do you feel guilty that you’re not spending enough time with your friends, family or even yourself? It might be time for change.
Low pay pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, causing more crashes and more traffic deaths.
A common theme from science fiction is a vision of a world where humans do less work and machines do more. Why have we not yet reached that point?
All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the ‘garden variety’ mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
Listen up junior doctors, here is your survival guide.
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
More and more workplaces are turning to the wellness industry to try and solve the problem of overwork.
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Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Occupational Therapy, Life Balance and Wellbeing, Cardiff University
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Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute Melbourne, La Trobe University
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MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Neuroscience, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Economics, Wayne State University
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Teaching Fellow in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Employment Relations, University of Leeds
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Professor in Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour, Loughborough University
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PhD Candidate in Mental Health Genetics, University of Cambridge
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Professeur en marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Smart Cities Consortium, University of Adelaide
