Workaholics, rejoice: long hours might not ruin your relationship, after all.
A new study published in scientific journal Human Relations bucks conventional wisdom that love suffers from long working hours — but only if you work in academia.
Researcher Dana Zunger, who has done other research on work-life balance, and her team at ETH Zurich zeroed in on 285 couples, most of whom worked in academia. Researchers focused on the academia because individuals in that field tended to work more and had more discretion over their hours than those in other fields. Respondents worked an average of 44 hours a week, despite only being contracted to work 35. Read more…
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