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When do we work too much?

2024-01-29T05:18:23.312Z

Highlights: When do we work too much?. How to find the right measure of commitment? Some ideas with sociologist Marc Loriol. To discover Leadership, balance, career, money... A business coaching program for women. Also read “Feeling overwhelmed protects and enhances”: why has being ‘underwater’ become the norm? Increasingly complex processes, difficulty in assessing the effectiveness of some, which often depends on that of others. And passion for work, widely encouraged, flirts dangerously with overcommitment.


Studies say it: the French are overwhelmed, they work too much. And this overload has become the norm. How to find the right measure of commitment? Some ideas with sociologist Marc Loriol.


When do we work “too much”?

Does professional life necessarily have to spill over into evenings and Sundays;

nibble away at family space, friendships, the rest times of our lives, to be effective?

We asked the question to Marc Loriol, sociologist, author of

Work addiction, from individual pathology to the collective management of commitment

(1).

In his work, he deciphers the notion of excess work and questions the causes that lead to it.

To discover

  • Leadership, balance, career, money... A business coaching program for women

Also read “Feeling overwhelmed protects and enhances”: why has being “underwater” become the norm?

Increasingly complex processes, difficulty in assessing the effectiveness of some, which often depends on that of others... Today, competence and recognition are measured by the degree of investment of each person.

And passion for work, widely encouraged, flirts dangerously with overcommitment.

At what price ?

Some avenues of analysis.

Madame Figaro.

– Your book takes stock of the workplace in France.

Are we working too much there?


Marc Loriol.

My book is part of a…

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Source: lefigaro

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