# Professor Adam Alter comments on Silicon Valley's culture of overwork

1 Faculty News June 24, 2017 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/why-silicon-valley-glorifies-culture-of-overwork-2017-6) -- "'A culture of overwork is damaging because it turns brief binges of hard work into a long-term strategy, and, worse still, an expectation. When managers start measuring the worth of their employees according to how quickly they return emails at 3 a.m., that particular work culture is broken,' [Adam Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter), a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, told Business Insider in an email."

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