Are you weak and heavy laden?

iPlod - Australia now a wired nation addicted to work

Kelly Burke, Melissa Davey

June 23, 2011When workers were asked if they felt technology helped them achieve a better work-life balance, more than 70 per cent agreed. Yet more than half admitted technology was intruding into personal time.

Mr Page did not believe job insecurity was driving the workaholism. But Barbara Pocock, director of the University of South Australia's Centre for Work + Life disagreed.

''Research shows that three-quarters of people who are putting in long work hours don't want to be doing them,'' Professor Pocock said. ''Job insecurity is part of this, although there is an addictive element to the long hours.''

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Don't waste a minute ... Jakeb Brown gets in a few more keystrokes as he waits for his train home to Newcastle, a trip that entails another hour's work. Photo: Wolter Peeters

IF COLLEAGUES on Facebook outnumber your friends, a smartphone is the last thing you consult before bed and you can't resist taking your laptop on holiday, it's time to get a life.

You are one of a growing band of ''techno-enabled'' workaholics ...