Workaholism from Rework

Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic. We
hear about people burning the midnight oil. They pull
 all- nighters and sleep at the office. It’s considered a
badge of honor to kill yourself over a project. No
amount of work is too much work.
Not only is this workaholism unnecessary, it’s stupid. Working more  doesn’t mean you care more or get
more done. It just means you work more.
Workaholics wind up creating more problems than
they solve. First off, working like that just isn’t sustainable over time. When the burnout crash  comes— and it
 will— it’ll hit that much harder.
Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix
problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to
make up for intellectual laziness with brute force. This
results in inelegant solutions.
They even create crises. They don’t look for ways to
be more efficient because they actually  like working
overtime. They enjoy feeling like heroes. They create
problems (often unwittingly) just so they can get off on
working more.
Workaholics make the people who don’t stay late
feel inadequate for “merely” working reasonable hours.
That leads to guilt and poor morale all around. Plus, it