The Perverse Incentives of Workism

Our intuition that effort is good for its own sake, regardless of what it produces, has created a work environment with perverse incentives. When we start attaching worth to activity rather than to productivity, we start caring more about whether somebody is a hard worker or not. And this can come at a very steep human cost. How often are we wearing workaholism as a badge of honor? Even if the person you're just trying to reassure is yourself.

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