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1. most prone to workaholism three categories of people.Firstly, it is senior executives and business owners.The second are highly educated professionals - doctors, lawyers, teachers.Still others - people of creative professions: writers, musicians, artists.
2. features present in typical modern workaholic: love of order, honesty, patience, work, perseverance, which turns into stubbornness, fear of making mistakes, the accumulation of stress, inability to relax, rest, inability to openly express their emotions.
3. Not all workaholics in fact are not.There imaginary workaholics - those who are trying to cover up the excess zeal to the inability to complete the task.These are usually well take root in companies where the area of responsibility of a single employee is not defined clearly.
4. One of the most common consequences of workaholism - high blood pressure.It also may include a tendency to be overweight, nicotine and alcohol abuse.
5. Underlying workaholism is a false belief of man that no one better than he is able to cope with the work, as well as a pathological tendency to underestimate the competence of colleagues.
6. Workaholic literally killed the employee of "McDonald's" in Japan.41-year-old woman for several months to recycle 80 hours.The investigation concluded that the cause of death of a Japanese woman has become an unhealthy attraction to work and caused her severe fatigue.
7. In Japan there is a special term "Karos" - he refers to sudden death in the workplace because of fatigue and overwork.According to the Japanese Ministry of Labor, the victims of this disease each year are hundreds of people.
Officials attribute this to the peculiarities of mentality.In Japanese companies, employees do not pay extra for recycling, but they still work overtime out of a sense of corporate patriotism.
8. Victims "Karos" - as a rule, men 30-40 years old who have no family.They are processed on a daily basis, without receiving anything in return.Comes to determining the boiling point, the staff do not stand up.There is a breakdown, sometimes - stroke, and ends all bad - death.
9. «Karos" declared insurance event.However, insurance companies do not pay compensation to relatives of the victims to death if he had less than 45 hours in the month of processing.
10. Another phenomenon also appeared in Japanese workaholics - "yaroyisatsu", ie suicide on the basis of stress at work.Examples of such mass.
So, a few years ago 30-year-old employee of the company "Toyota Motors" shot himself in the workplace.In the suicide note, suicide and wrote: "In my death blame job."
11. Bursts of workaholism and the number of deaths at work are becoming more frequent in times of economic and financial crises.Employees want to demonstrate their loyalty to the employer to avoid or at least reduce the risk of dismissal.
12. Japanese officials can not afford to go home before the boss.
13. At the initiative of the Japanese union employees to help workaholics, as well as their wives and mothers set up a hotline where you can get support and advice of a psychologist.
14. Employees companies in Europe do not use their entire annual leave.They work in the summer.In most countries of the European Union set up the so-called society of workaholics anonymous, where people gather to listen to each other and get help doctors, psychologists and business coaches.
wording sounding at the meetings are very similar to those that utter suffering from alcohol dependence, "We recognize that our desire for work is pathological, we should take a sober look at the past life and to draw conclusions" or "We have forgotten about their loved ones, causing it irreparable harm.Now we will give you the warmth and love that they are owed. "
15. In Germany, there are more than 200 thousand workaholics, Switzerland - about 115 thousand.Company workaholics in Switzerland called "Crazy workers."There's workaholism elevated to the rank of the plague of the XXI century.
16. According to estimates of the European Union, about 7% of Europeans suffer from "burn-in" on the 5-7% likely to be depressed, 28% experience chronic stress, and 33% suffer from chronic pain in the spine because of the work.
17. «1200 hours per year spent in the writings of the French peasant of the Middle Ages, which corresponds to the 23-hour week (excluding holidays)."Malcolm Gladwell, a Canadian journalist and sociologist
18. «It is necessary to make a break for lunch - and you yourself will eat."A popular saying in Silicon Valley workaholics
19. «In the past, people worked hard, so that earn a livelihood, or because they were forced.Now it has become a bad habit. "George Watson, a British mathematician
20. «When a man says that he came to wealth through hard work, ask him:" Whose work? "Don Marquis, American humorist
21. Disease workaholism first called psychoanalyst Sandor Ferencziin 1919.It is from this illness he treated his patients who became ill at the end of the work week, and then recovered sharply on Monday morning.
Ferenczi first described the disease ailment Sunday, and then came up with the term "workaholism".
22. Psychologists distinguish four stages of workaholism.First, the initial, usually goes unnoticed and begins with the fact that a person is detained at work, think about it at your leisure, personal life takes a back seat.
second stage - critical when the work becomes a passion.Life is completely subordinate to the work, and the patient finds it a lot of excuses.It appears chronic fatigue, disturbed sleep.The next stage - chronic.
workaholic voluntarily takes on more and more responsibilities, becoming a perfectionist, but in time all he can not.
continue to develop the disease.When is the last stage, the fourth, the person becomes ill, both physically and psychologically.The efficiency decreases, the man almost broken.
23. Workaholic, according to a French materialist Fields Lafarta, is nothing but a manifestation of the fear of losing their jobs."The working class all over the world are constantly thinking about what to do in the service and how to do it.
But the root cause is not the love of work, and the fear of being on the street, did not like his employer.This feature and ruining workers in Europe and other countries, they have become hostages of their fear, and therefore allow itself to be exploited, but still consider themselves heroes, working 16 hours a day. "These words Lafart wrote in 1883.
24. Korea's Ministry of Health has distributed an order for the agency.Now, at six o'clock in the evening in all the buildings of the Ministry of forcibly turned off the electricity, so that employees do not sit up late at the office and went home.
This measure was adopted after among the employees of the Ministry of cases of divorce, as well as decreased fertility.Officials of the Ministry of Health to improve Korea's demographics is worse than all the other representatives of ministries and departments.
On average per employee of Ministry of Health of the child has to 1.54 with an average of 1.84.
25. best biathlete of all time, the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen does not spend all his time on physical exercise than the sin of his competitors from Russia, Germany and Sweden.Bjoerndalen prefers constant exhausting training and analysis of the psychology of biathlon race.
That is why, according to his coach and himself, he wins.Members of the Russian biathlon team commented reluctance Norwegian ruin himself-night sessions: "This is what we have to kill to get on top form, not to lose speed and shoot.Borndalenu And all this is not necessary, he trains his head, it builds the race while living a normal life. "
Elena Yevseyev
Articles Source: trud.ru
