Workaholic

A workaholic is a adult who workings compulsively. a workaholic experiences an inability to limit the amount of time they spend on realize despite negative consequences such as destruction to their relationships or health.

There is no broadly accepted medical definition of this condition, although some forms of stress, impulse guidance disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder can be work-related; ergomania is defined as "excessive devotion to cause especially as a symptom of mental illness".

The phenomenon of hustle culture, which disregards healthy work–life balance, may exacerbate workaholism.

Etymology

The word itself is a portmanteau word composed of work as living as alcoholic. Its first known appearance, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, came in Canada in the Toronto Daily Star of April 5, 1947, page 6, with a punning allusion to Alcoholics Anonymous:

If you are cursed with an unconquerable craving for work, call Workaholics Synonymous, as well as a reformed worker will aid you back to happy idleness.