Medicine & TechnologyWorking from home allows employees to balance caring responsibilities and other non-work commitments with work demands, as well as reducing commute times and decreasing job-related stress. The benefits to organisations include increased productivity, and a greater flexibility from staff to meet employer needs such as conference calls outside core office hours.
Addiction to productivity causes hyper-focus on the present while failing to see the bigger picture - compulsive behavior, lost relationships, and bad health. Through time, intervention, and therapy, workaholics can avoid and recover from the 'mixed-blessing addiction.'
The group of scientists created an experiment on whether being obsessive worker or doing longer period of hours truly influences personal relationships with others.
It seems that idiom "work hard, play hard" may have some truth to it afterall. Researchers have now discovered that individuals who work more, may also drink more according to a new study which shows that 48 hours of work per week or more lead to a tendency to drink a lot, in both quantity and frequency.