Stressful leisure
Business | A Gallup poll last year found that 44 percent of Americans consider themselves to be workaholics
by Timothy Lamer
Posted 6/03/06, 12:00 am
It has become axiomatic that the United States is, in the words of CIO magazine, "a nation of stressed-out workaholics." A Gallup poll last year found that 44 percent of Americans consider themselves to be workaholics. Advertisers have cashed in on the idea, with commercials for one theme park featuring fictional undertakers who thank Americans for working themselves into early graves. The concept of the "overworked American" has long been a staple of political and cultural discussion in Western Europe also.