“What pushes someone toward becoming a workaholic?”

“What do we get out of spending too much time at work at the expense of our families?”

These are the questions pondered several years ago in a Sunday School class I attended.

Answers ranged from the desire to provide for a family to employment insecurities to a desire to contribute to creative, meaningful work. What stood out to me, however, was even though the group was comprised of equal number...