Where Work Is A Religion

The New York Times had a feature on burnout. The article can be found here. The subtext was interesting: in a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith.

Ayala Pines is a researcher on burnout and sums up the problem as a failure of the existential quest ”” that moment when we wake up one morning and realize that what we”™re doing has appallingly little value.