American employees spend an average of 44 hours per week working, an increase of 3.5 hours since 1977, according to a 1998 study by the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit research group in New York. In the same study, one in three Americans said they bring work home at least once a week, a 10 percent increase over the past 20 years. In Europe they take their free time a lot more seriously. Technological advances have enabled workaholics and pushed borderline workaholics over the edge. Laptop computers, cellular phones and e-mail make working from anywhere, around the clock, easier than ever.
Technology is perfect for it.
It s everywhere. Workaholism is working to the exclusion of everything else in one s life, say experts. It is an addiction that causes an individual to become so obsessed with work that he is crippled emotionally and physically. Experts point out that there is a difference between hard workers and workaholics. Hard workers do what is necessary to complete the job.