Are workaholics getting a bum rap? You bet, says a professor of business psychology at University College London. Not only is working like a maniac not hazardous to your physical or emotional health, but it benefits society, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an authority in personality profiling and psychometric testing.
Here’s how he framed the issue in the Harvard Business Review blog : "According to one urban legend, based on 1950s pop psychology, workaholics are greedy and selfish people who are bound to die from a heart attack. Not really. As the great David Ogilvy once said: ‘Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.’ "
