{"id":110,"date":"2006-06-18T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-06-18T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T06:52:35","slug":"videogame-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a new addiction: Videogame addiction. See this Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/26\/AR2006052601960.html\">article<\/a> that discusses gaming addiction. Amsterdam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithandjones.nl\/\">Smith and Jones  Addiction Consultants<\/a> now offers treatment for gaming addiction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.iastate.edu\/FACULTY\/dgentile\/SRCD%20Video%20Game%20Addiction.pdf\">Research<\/a> on gaming addiction is thin at this point in time with debate on whether this is a real addiction. You can, however, bet that this problem will find it&#8217;s way into the workplace and will be raised as a defence to some employee&#8217;s discipline case.<\/p>\n<p>If this is a real addiciton, and requires an accommodation, I would imagine that part of the acommodation would involve the employee staying away from computers. How would you achieve that without undue hardship in this day and age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a new addiction: Videogame addiction. See this Washington Post article that discusses gaming addiction. Amsterdam&#8217;s Smith and Jones Addiction Consultants now offers treatment for gaming addiction. Research on gaming addiction is thin at this point in time with debate on whether this is a real addiction. You can, however, bet that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-human-rights-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}