Abstract
Over the twenty years, stress at work and work-life balance has attracted the attention of a lot of observers such as employers, journalists, politicians, and health professionals. At the same time, a new kind of addiction has been identified, workaholism. The term workaholic refers to a person who is addicted to work. The word appeared in the 1960s and gained more widespread use in the 1990s. In fact, workaholics live to work rather than work to live. Workaholism seems to have become an important problem in our society, a social pathology. Workaholics Anonymous was founded in 1983 by a financial planner and a teacher. It is a program for people with a problematic relationship with work.
