JOB SPILL

n.

Work or work-related tasks that carry over into personal time.

—job-spilladj.

If your boss calls you on the weekend, that'sjob spill. If you boot up your laptop after supper —job spill.

— Webster's staff defines 'job spill',"Akron Beacon Journal, January 9, 2003

According to Fraser and the dozens of workers she spent four years interviewing, this so-called "job spill" — this seamless merging of home and work that was supposed to make our lives so much easier — is the bane of today's mid-level corporate worker. It's everywhere.

— Emily J. Minor, "Why bother?,"Palm Beach Post, March 31, 2001

Job spill... is the dirty little secret behind many a corporation's thriving bottom line.

— Jill Andresky Fraser,White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America, W.W. Norton & Company, February, 2001

This phrase was named "word of the year" for 2002 by the staff at Webster's New World College Dictionary.

clockless worker

engaged workaholic

fake-ation

flexecutive

ghost work

peanut-buttering

presenteeism

rat-race equilibrium

sunlighting

tech-life balance

undertime

vacation deprivation

warm-chair attrition

weisure

work-life balance

work-life overload

workweek creep

Corporate Culture

Employees