ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the literature on the antecedents and consequences of working hours, work intensity, and work addiction particularly among managers and professionals. It suggests a need for more research to better understand the effects of work hours, work intensity, and workaholism, as well as provides a number of implications and organizational and societal suggestions for addressing work hour concerns. The chapter focuses on work hours that is multi-faceted. First, a large number of employees are unhappy about the number of hours they work. Second, the amount of time demanded by work is an obvious and important way in which work affects other parts of ones life. Then, work hours are a widely studied structural output of employment. And finally, the study of work hours and well-being outcomes has produced both inconsistent and complex results. Employer demands and the institutionalized nature of work and employment has tended to constrain work hours in established patterns.
