Comments on: Workaholics Are Not Role Models http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/09/workaholics-are-not-role-models/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= I Help You Become a Higher Performer, Get Promoted, and Better Paid Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:37:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: simonstapleton http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/09/workaholics-are-not-role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-359 simonstapleton Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:06:35 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=757#comment-359 @Mark - good way of categorizing the two. There are such people as 'busy idiots' - these people work hard but are not doing so effectively. So the cost per unit of work is high. There are also the people who work the standard hours, but are super efficient and effective. Then of course there are the people who are efficient, effective, and are workaholics - great value for the organization in the short term but it may cost in the long term if a unsustainable culture is created due to rewarding this behavior. Waddayouthink? @Mark – good way of categorizing the two. There are such people as ‘busy idiots’ – these people work hard but are not doing so effectively. So the cost per unit of work is high. There are also the people who work the standard hours, but are super efficient and effective. Then of course there are the people who are efficient, effective, and are workaholics – great value for the organization in the short term but it may cost in the long term if a unsustainable culture is created due to rewarding this behavior. Waddayouthink?

]]> By: Mark McClure Coaching http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/09/workaholics-are-not-role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Mark McClure Coaching Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:37:35 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=757#comment-357 I remember attending a meeting at a former employer where the head r&d guru described a coming world where employees would be contactable 24 x 7 in all kinds of smart tech ways - even down to wearing "smart biz clothes" that could communicate where you were at any point of the working day. Would make a great skit about employees accidentally "mixing up their biz clothes" for a day or so. (but I'm sure the whizkids will have some kind of body odor sensor to mask that one haha!!) On a more practical level, I believe there is a fine line between "hard workers" and "workaholics". Usually the dividing line is recognizable between those who have a balanced life with other interests, loves and free time (remember that?!) versus those who (for many reasons) do not. I remember attending a meeting at a former employer where the head r&d guru described a coming world where employees would be contactable 24 x 7 in all kinds of smart tech ways – even down to wearing “smart biz clothes” that could communicate where you were at any point of the working day.

Would make a great skit about employees accidentally “mixing up their biz clothes” for a day or so. (but I’m sure the whizkids will have some kind of body odor sensor to mask that one haha!!)

On a more practical level, I believe there is a fine line between “hard workers” and “workaholics”.

Usually the dividing line is recognizable between those who have a balanced life with other interests, loves and free time (remember that?!) versus those who (for many reasons) do not.

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