Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague?

How to handle the situation when the grown in the company (Salary raise, Bonus, Stock, Promotion ) is measured by "relative performance" and you are stuck with a workaholic team mate who keeps sending update emails at weird hours in the night . Its good for team productivity but not for general team health and peer's growth in company.

Update - I am been rated above average in the current appraisal system and quite happy with the work I do. Changing job would be resetting all the good will and trust that I have built here. But after advent of this colleague, I see everything declining as exceptions are changing, sometimes portaged as "irresponsible". I can work like donkey but I like to continue to spend tine with friends and family and follow all my hobbies unlike the peer.

I don't really want to portray my peer as bad(He is mostly nice on the face), just need honest opinion if this job is still a right fit for me.

Well your relative performance is worse, so either tolerate that or work harder. Nobody's work-life balance is someone else's decision to make.

That is a very american attitude, I'd say =)

I consider it a management duty to stop people from working too much (which is a rather european attitude :D).

From a fellow workaholic:

Talk with him and see what really excites him. Suggest that you work together with him on an open source side project (possibly related to a something your team is building). A piece of the project he can get excited about and occupy his excess energy.

Help him promote it so he can get him some recognition / feedback outside of just the internal company employees. And your team might still get some additional benefits from the open source project he's working on.

Exactly. Do your best to fulfill the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle