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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs.text for author bio box: please use author bio from author info pagetext for book description box:"Fassel puts her finger on a key problem in the workplace today: For many people, work, as currently defined in our society, has become a substitute for life."?i>Chicago Tribune"Fassel debunks the myth that work addicts get ahead...She helps guide the reader toward a more balanced life through simple and proven techniques."?i>Feminist Bookstore News
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Diane Fessel, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Addictive Organization and the author of Growing Up Divorced. She is the president of Newmeasures, a company which develops short, reliable surveys that measure employee satisfaction and corporate values.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
So glad it's back in print
19 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
Working Ourselves to Death changed my life. I now HAVE a life. Fassel sheds light on the consequences of overinvolvement in work and provides concrete advice on how to extract yourself from the kind of soul-killing obsession that work can become. If you can't leave the office behind, this book will show you the way out.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
To the Appropriate Point
16 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I suffered from chronic overwork several years ago - routinely working 80-100 hours weekly. As I was searching for a way out, I found this book to be particularly helpful in focusing on the key issues and finding the choices that led to the much more balanced life that I now have. This entailed leaving my work and working in another area of my organization for a year and a half (working regular hours) before leaving that organization and area to start something new (answer the call to teach) in a different area of the country.
I highly recommend this book for those dealing with the consequences of overwork and desiring to search out their options for improving things where they are at, changing to something else or perhaps downsizing one's lifestyle by working part-time or early retirement.
What could be more important than what you do with your time?
I highly recommend this book for those dealing with the consequences of overwork and desiring to search out their options for improving things where they are at, changing to something else or perhaps downsizing one's lifestyle by working part-time or early retirement.
What could be more important than what you do with your time?
33 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Too burdened with 12-step jargon to be useful
25 Feb 2002
Format:Paperback
Fassel is taking on an issue that I believe is crucial in our society and I am pleased to see that, but I am disappointed in this book. She fails to get at the heart of some of the issues she raises because she is so mired in twelve-step jargon. Is it really impossible to cut back to a reasonable work load without calling on a "higher power" and going to meetings? And is the jargon of "disease" and "addiction" really applicable here? I also grew weary of the endless neologisms using the suffix "-aholic, with words like "care-aholic." This has really become overused.
I'd rather see a book that addresses the REAL issues--the unrealistic demands of companies and bosses, our society's obsession with "getting ahead" and consumption, our lack of adequate vacation time. Many other cultures have shorter work weeks, more vacation time and better family leave policies than ours, and they didn't have to go twelve-stepping to do it--they developed POLITICAL and social solutions to overwork instead. It seems we could do that here. Fassel's approach seems inadequate--and what good does it do for "work-aholics" to "make searching and fearless moral inventories of themselves" if our society's approach to the economy does not change?
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