Home truths on unhappiness for workaholics

Researchers investigated the notion that men and women who feel glum about their personal lives seek “compensatory rewards” through work.

But this was hardly ever successful, according to the study from Kingston University’s Business School which is published in the British Journal of Management.

It found there was undoubtedly a link between job and life satisfaction, particularly among the main bread-winners in households.

But such happiness failed to extend to people who were attempting to use their work to make up for unhappiness at home.

Report co-author Professor Yannis Georgellis said: “Although there is a clear spill-over effect from one area of life to the other, there is no evidence that people who are very unhappy at home will feel compensated by work in any way.”