eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2333-4533 2022-11-22 10 4 220 232 10.12691/jbms-10-4-5 JBMS20221045 article Yasmin Khaled Abdel Maksoud 1 Mohamed Saad yasmin.khaled@miuegypt.edu.eg 2 Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Graduate School of Business (AASTMT), Cairo, Egypt The British University In Egypt, (BUE), Cairo, Egypt The influence of workaholism is one of the major impact factors on work-family imbalance and wellbeing. This paper presents the findings of recent empirical studies regarding the link of work-family balance and workaholism and how it shows a negative relationship between them, the link between work-family balance and employee wellbeing and how it shows a positive relationship between them, and finally the link between workaholism and employee wellbeing and how it shows a negative relationship between them. The researcher examines studies which were published over the past decade to investigate the relationship between workaholism and employee wellbeing while taking the mediating role of work-family balance (WFB). A conceptual framework was offered which may help and guide future research regarding this area. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/10/4/5/jbms-10-4-5.pdf workaholism perfectionism unpleasantness work-family balance (wfb) employee wellbeing