Workaholism-a virus appears in Modern society

With the increasing competition within the society, the phenomena of workaholism has become more severe. People work all day and all year to earn more money, to get higher social status and to pursue a luxury life. As a result, their health has become worse and their relationship with families and friends has been broken. Finally, they even don¡¯t know the feeling of happiness. They lose everything they should have possessed because of overworking. Hence, they feel very vacuous if they are not allowed to work anymore. This essay will define workaholism and critically discuss the effect on our well being and the negative effect will be largely focused on.

Workaholism can be defined as either an addiction to work or a tool to control one¡¯s life and a tool to escape problems. Oates (1971)firstly defined workaholism as ¡°addiction to work, the compulsion or the uncontrollable need to work incessantly¡±(cited in Bonebright et......

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