Are you a work junkie? Like all addictions, overworking is bad for you

Overwhelmed: Overwork is a growing phenomenon. Photo: AFPrelaxnews

Holidays make us more productive when we return to work.

Buy two suit jackets, the bankers of S.G. Warburg used to be advised. If you wanted to get home at a reasonable time, without being spotted missing from your desk when co-founder Henry Grunfeld dropped by for a word, you left a jacket on the back of your chair. With any luck the boss would move on, believing he had just missed you and that you were still hard at work somewhere in the building.