"The Only Reward For Good Work Is More Work"
Modern white-collar existence and crappy management, personified.
Before I get going on this top performer curse idea, let me hit you with a pull quote. It’s from an article called “Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance, Even When You Can’t.” (Noble goal.) Here’s the quote:
Redistribute work more evenly. Research by a team from Duke University, University of Georgia, and University of Colorado in 2015 found that managers underestimate how much time it takes to get something done and assign more work to those who are seen as more competent and responsible. So the only reward for doing good work is the addition of more work. High-performers reported feeling “burdened” and were unhappy about others’ over-reliance on them. Reassigning work to others on the team can help prevent burnout and turnover. It also provides much-needed learning opportunities for others on the team.
Get a nice laugh out of that?
The top performer money quote
That would be “The only reward for doing good work is the addition of more work.” Ha. Sigh.
Here’s one of the essential problems with work overall
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