Working Too Much Isn’t Good--Single or Married

Even though I am married with children, I was single long enough to empathize greatly with those single adults who complain about having to always pick up the work slack for co-workers with children (“Do Childless Workers Get the Short End of the Stick?,” March 13).

However, the real issue is this: Employers need to recognize that every employee has, or should have, a rich and vibrant personal life. People who are workaholics, regardless of their personal status, are of no real use to themselves, to their employers or to their colleagues. Everyone should give an honest day’s work to their employer and when it is done be free to go home and recharge the creative batteries, replenish the soul or whatever it takes to do the same the next day.

Nor should it be ignored that single people also volunteer in their communities, take care of loved ones or participate in the body politic. All these things are as vital to the strength of our society, and thus the backbone of our economy, as anything that can be done on the job.

--MAUDE HAM

Burbank