Workplace Wellbeing: When drive for success drives us down

We live in a culture that praises people who work long hours, but there comes a point where it can tip over into a compulsion and undermine our health  

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SOCIETY has a complex attitude towards workaholics. We sympathise with novelist Cecelia Ahern when she shares her experience of burning out due to overwork, but we champion people like Elon Musk for working 100-hour weeks.

Dr Damien Lowry, a chartered member of the Psychological Society of Ireland, believes it’s because pushing ourselves to our limits at work is socially acceptable.