ORLANDO, Fla. – Hustle culture, workaholic, toxic productivity, do you have an unhealthy obsession with being productive? A list of tasks that never ends and is never enough? The recent surge of hustle culture has many people romanticizing over-working and subsequently burning out.
When your office is your home, and your home is your office the line between work and home can become blurred. The result, working day and night.
“Going over that limit, it cuts into that time you need to have to have some downtime, to decompress,” James West, LMHC at Total Life Counseling told Ivanhoe.
Whether it’s pressure from work, an extreme exercise routine, learning a long list of new skills, if you don’t take a break all that productivity could turn toxic.