Previous studies of employee engagement—a concept similar to passion—have also suggested a link between passion and poor work-life balance. A study of 844 firefighters, hairstylists, educators, caregivers, bankers, and other working adults in the United States revealed that employee engagement—measured by an employee’s degree of vigor, dedication, and absorption in work (“when I am working, I forget everything else around me”)—increased work’s interference with family life (“my work keeps me from my family activities more than I would like”).4 Too much engagement at work led to poor work-life
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