workaholism
work addiction
ergomania technical

However, workaholism can lead to adverse effects on one's relationship with his or her partner.

He often suffers from the pressure put on him by Hastings' workaholism.

When he displayed early symptoms of workaholism as a young lawyer, she raised the family.

It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement, but to an abiding relationship with him.

Workaholism is not the same as working hard.

Eric's workaholism is roiling the waters at home with his partner.

Maybe net worth and workaholism aren't everything, I thought.

I don't want you to become involved in that lather of workaholism."

Such are we a product of modern workaholism.

I've had every single major disorder known to woman, from alcoholism to workaholism, anything to avoid having to feel my feelings.

His drug habit and his workaholism take their inevitable toll.

In some ways, the Mayor's workaholism is admirable.

The weather is classic California resort, which only feeds the region's endemic workaholism.

"I call workaholism an equal opportunity disease because we have as many women members as men.

For example, Pat related her husband's workaholism to his abandonment by his father as a small child.

Ferguson's self confessed workaholism has placed strains on his personal relations in the past.

His workaholism, he says, stems from "feelings of inadequacy."

If not, he was prone to workaholism.

Ms. Young's first marriage ended in divorce - the result, she said, of a youthful mistake and not her workaholism.

Workaholism isn't the only dynamic that can be a factor in work-family conflicts.

You can choose your vice, but you get only one workaholism, gluttony, drink.

Learn about workaholism and its warning signs.

And, in a company that values workaholism, an unwillingness to work 70-hour weeks could indeed keep you on the Mommy Track.

Those who exhibit workaholism tend to demonstrate higher levels of presenteeism.

Let me argue, instead, on behalf of an institution that has kept workaholism in reasonable check for thousands of years.

Bottom lines define the point where workaholics cross from abstinence to work addiction.

How Addiction Works Addictions to substances such as drugs and alcohol have ruined the lives of people all over the world.

Modern technology - cellphones, BlackBerries, laptops and such - is "like jet fuel, pushing work addiction into overdrive," she said.

To the Editor: While work addiction can certainly be understood, and in many cases justified, in the current economic climate, "Addicted to Work?

In 1983, one of the first formal efforts to create a fellowship around work addiction recovery began in New York when a corporate financial planner and a school teacher met.

We all do what we must, but let us not forget the heavy cost we bear when we work 24/7, whether we call it old-fashioned hard work (without boundaries) or work addiction.

He is also very patient and tolerates her work addiction; for example, he is willing to wait hours or even days for her to wrap up a case so that he can see her.

In 1971, Dr. Oates wrote "Confessions of a Workaholic: The Facts about Work Addiction," adding a word to the American lexicon; the Oxford English Dictionary credits him with inventing it.

Psychological dependence does not have to be limited only to substances; even activities and behavioural patterns can be considered addictions, if they become uncontrollable, e.g. problem gambling, Internet addiction, computer addiction, sexual addiction / pornography addiction, overeating, self-injury, compulsive buying, or work addiction.