Why is home more stressful than work? Because we're too lax about relaxing they're stock photograph models who enjoy their work. Actually vegging Work (as you may have heard) sucks. Everyone’s too busy, burnout stalks five, perhaps even achieving a four-hour workweek, or running a are significantly less stressed at work than they are at home? levels at home than at work. stressed at work, women, but not men, were also more likely to report much more likely than men to return home to a long list of housework us, it suggests, find work less stressful than being at home. Bernstein runs through some of the likely reasons: we get paid at work; paid work is more socially esteemed than housework, parenting, or caring for Work dominates our culture so completely that we can't help but think of "leisure" as a negative idea, defined against work – the part of the happiness. laziest choice, not the most happiness-inducing one. London commuters, he bemoaned the way the office worker's habits: [The office worker] persists in looking upon those hours from 10 to 6 minute we're not working, producing value for our employers and their or relaxing or just hanging around until work – "uptime" – begins our work lives. * Work & careers * Work for us [p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&comscorekw=Psychology%2CWork+%26+careers