How to convince a workaholic person to stop working every weekend and to take care of their health? Seriously...

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They might not have the choice. I used to work on weekend and holiday all the time. My team always felt really bad and asked me to take some time off, but also at the same time, everyone put more work on my plate. If you feel that bad, check the person's workload and try to share the burden. That person might have much more work to handle than you think.

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It’s an unconscionable amount of work at times. It can be disheartening to hear some higher ups talk about the number of billable hours logged or how long busy season was over the last year. Seems a little hallow hearing these same people talk about work/life balance.

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Sounds like they’re stuck in a bad cycle. Most ppl I know work at some point during weekends if they’re in audit.

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Maybe they’re not workaholic? Maybe they just have wayyy to much in their plate? Which in this industry is not very uncommon unfortunately. Squeeze as much $$ as you can from a salaried soul is the name of their game. Talk to management/managers and tell them to stop throwing stuff at this person.

You can’t just tell someone to stop and save it for next week, because next week they’ll be even more stressed with looming deadlines.

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You have to dive into the details. What exactly is being communicated to this person--directly, and, more importantly, indirectly? What is the exact motivation behind all the working hours? How is this person being mentored--or not mentored? When the person is working, are they doing legitimate work, or are they trying to respond to ridiculous/unreasonable questions from above?

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As someone who has this problem badly, I started with taking one day off… every Saturday (except during busy season) I put anything work related in a place where I am not likely to go out of my way to get it. I do this every Saturday to get practice in. I am working on Sunday’s now. This includes no work phone or email usage. If it’s urgent, they’ll call ur personal phone or other members.

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They need to schedule work around their life on the weekends and not the other way around.

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I’ve seen this where it’s communicated that the person needs to take time off/take a break/stop work at reasonable hours while the workload (even if lessened from what it was) is still unreasonable. Then the same people communicating work/life balance are shocked when some work doesn’t get done, or deadlines all of a sudden cause a fire drill because the person didn’t work overtime. This can cause the person who is most likely already burnt out to have anxiety and also resentment about being told to take time off when it ends with long hours in a tight turn around. Part of that is just PA. Part of it is from management relying on expectations that person has set (likely without properly communicating the amount of time / long hours they were spending to meet expectations).

Ultimately all you can do is follow through with actually lessening the workload to a reasonable amount and the rest is up to them.

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ASM1, Can you please not be so specific next time.

“Don’t you have better things to do with your time?”

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