The perilous fantasy of work-life balance
that require workers to spend some time in the office. The people who got used to working remotely three years ago are now trying to remember what it's like to commute to and work in a physical office.
Some of those people have been reminded of the benefits of the office. For one, working in an office can make it easier to enforce boundaries with employers — when workers head home at 5 o'clock, they're done for the day. The increase in collegial face time has also rekindled office friendships. In aconducted in June by the American Enterprise Institute, more than half of respondents said they'd met a close friend at work or through their spouse's workplace.
As Koretz explained, it's not necessarily a bad thing for a job to take up the bulk of a person's time and headspace. It also isn't inherently harmful for one's identity to be subsumed by the work they do."These things are not necessarily a problem — until they become a problem for you or a loved one," Koretz said.
as an"occupational phenomenon" characterized by feelings of exhaustion, cynicism, or distance from one's job, and reduced professional efficacy.But while it reigns in notoriety, burnout is just one of the possible ramifications of being too invested in your job.
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