‪Quand le travail déborde…‪. La pénibilité du surtravail à domicile des chercheurs de l’industrie énergétique

?The article draws from a survey undertaken in a specialist energy production and distribution company?s research centre to analyse the employee health effects of overworking, specifically where this involves people working at home. Crossing variables such as work, gender and health, it demonstrates that there are three types of overworking at home, depending on what is being done, how and why. The first relates to tasks done voluntarily that give meaning back to work, being a commodity that has tended to dissipate in recent years in corporate work environments. Although this may add to people?s workload, paradoxically it can also help them to get and stay fit. The second corresponds to phenomena such as employees? over-investment in their work, to the point of becoming exhausted and even having their health endangered. The third refers to work-life balance problems, largely involving the problems faced by women researchers who become re-categorised as part-timers despite doing as much work as before, and who then struggle to perform all of the professional, domestic and parenting activities required of them.?