You’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to… work?

This analysis piece from Reuters doesn’t really consider the fact that not all companies and jobs are created equal. Noting that 43 percent of office workers said they work on vacation, compared with 23 percent in a survey taken in 1995, this news item features the analysis of a psychiatrist who implies some of us might have a real problem. He says that in some cases the person who takes a ‘working vacation’ is someone who is just so addicted to work that they can’t ever leave it. It’s their only way of amusing themselves, and that’s a problem…” Maybe. But I think if the survey had been more granular, it would show that at the typical SMB everyone’s role is pivotal and that small and medium-sized companies don’t have a lot of extra people lolling about to keep things up and running while someone takes down time. Were it not for today’s technology, some of us would never get a vacation at all, working or not.