Study Suggests Passionate Workers are More Likely to Be Exploited

According to a recent study from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, people who love their jobs are more likely to be exploited by their managers. In her study, titled Understanding Contemporary Forms of Exploitation: Attributions of Passion Serve to Legitimize the Poor Treatment of Workers, professor Aaron Kay found manager find it more acceptable to make passionate employees perform extra, unpaid or even demeaning work. “It’s great to love your work,” Kay said,