Stop being an overachiever
Such employees may be over-burdened and yet passed over for promotions
Singapore
IT'S a good thing to be seen as capable and reliable at work. But when taken to the extreme, it can saddle an overachieving employee with extra work and unfair expectations, while less proficient colleagues cruise along for the same pay.
This is increasingly backed by research which found that people do, in fact, assign more work to workers who are perceived as more competent, in a paper titled The burden of responsibility: Interpersonal costs of high self-control.
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