“Genius,” goes the oft-quoted Thomas Edison maxim, “is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” But in some modern American workplaces, the doctrine of hard work has been supplanted by a different mantra: Fake it until you make it.
That’s the conclusion of new research published inOrganization Science, which suggests that, despite the fact that we’ve enshrined workaholism as a proxy for success in American culture, many of those co-workers who pride themselves on 80-hour work weeks are probably full of it.
The research, which examined the habits of employees at a "high profile” consulting firm, found that the majority of workers were dissatisfied with the demands of high-intensity workplaces and felt constantly “overworked and underfamilied,” as lead researcher Erin Reid writes.
[For more of this story, written by Jared Keller, go to http://www.psmag.com/business-...atching-breaking-bad]
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