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EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
With more people working from home during the pandemic, the boundaries between job and life are blurred. Lawmakers in the EU …
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What's work-life balance? Explore our curated articles to learn about the idea, and why some consider work-life balance to be a flawed concept.
Big Think
The “Reitoff principle”: Why you should add “nothing” to your work-life schedule
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to “write off” a day and intentionally step away from achieving …
Work-Life BalanceBBC
Five countries with the best work-life balance
For anyone considering an international move, it’s important to understand a country’s attitudes towards work – …
Remote Work Work-Life BalanceBBC
What does work-life balance mean in a changed work world?
Now, workers are defining what actually constitutes ‘balance’, rather than their companies.
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Jean Hsu
Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance
What if, instead of focusing heavily on work-life balance, managers and companies supported people in having a healthy …
Work-Life BalanceBetter Programming
How I Manage Work-Life Balance In the Remote-Work Era
Working remote is awesome, but it can be challenging to maintain a healthy work-life balance. As much as I love having the …
Remote Work Work-Life BalanceMedium
Work/Life Balance Should Be Difficult
We need work. All up and down Maslow’s Hierarchy we need work. Food. Shelter. Belonging, purpose, esteem, growth. We …
Work-Life BalanceThe Wall Street Journal
Work-Life Balance Finally Happened. Then They Were Called Back to the Office.
Giving up remote work can feel like a loss. Here are ways to bring some of the flexibility of working from home back with …
Remote Work Work-Life BalanceCulture Study
Who's Afraid of the Four Day Work Week?
This is the principle at the heart of the four day week: working less can actually mean working better. That idea is …
Work Work-Life BalanceLawrence Jones
On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others
When I first started my career, I worked a lot. The problems pulled me in, and I’d get so involved I’d be unable …
Work-Life BalanceThe Mainichi
Japan gov't backs 4-day workweek, but experts split
Japan’s government plans to encourage firms to let their employees choose to work four days a week instead of five, …
Work Work-Life BalanceKisi
Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021
By comparing data on work intensity, institutional support, legislation, and livability, study reveals a ranking of cities …
Work-Life BalanceThe Wall Street Journal
The New Silicon Valley Perks: Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy
Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer …
Work Work-Life BalanceHarvard Business Review
Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement
Research has definitively shown that overwork isn’t good for employees or their companies — and yet, in practice, it …
Work-Life BalancePeter Attia
Jason Fried: Optimizing efficiency and work-life balance
In this episode, Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, shares his beliefs around achieving business success in a modern world …
Podcast Remote Work Work-Life BalanceElemental
Why Slow Mornings May Be the Secret to Tech-Life Balance
Daily walks, quiet rooms, and tech-free mornings. The strategies for achieving better health in the digital age are pretty …
Work-Life BalanceTIME
Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Do This Instead
If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange aspiration for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis: if our lives …
Work-Life BalanceChicago Tribune
Amazon's Jeff Bezos on why work-life balance is 'a debilitating phrase'
I get asked about work-life balance all the time. And my view is, that’s a debilitating phrase because it implies …
Work-Life BalanceHarvard Business Review
What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time
No matter how well you plan, times will come up where work and family commitments come head-to-head. These situations rarely …
Work-Life BalanceQuartz
Why we can no longer separate work from life (and shouldn't)
Instead of putting pressure on ourselves to achieve a great utopia of work-life balance, we should start focusing on …
Work-Life BalanceKrister's coding adventures
Going for the 5 hour workday
8 hours and 5 days a week is killing me. Every workday I put all my effort into the project. Then I put more effort in to …
Work-Life BalanceShyam Sankar
The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future
Creating the life and the work you want are by no means easy challenges, but they are absolutely attainable. What’s not …
Work-Life BalanceReadThink
I Don't Really Believe in Work-Life Balance
If you actually are trying to become great at something, it’s probably on your mind all the time. It’s very hard …
Work-Life BalanceDesk of van Schneider
Work/Life balance is bullshit.
For me the concept of work/life balance is bullshit. The fact that we call it work/life balance automatically implies that …
Work-Life BalanceJames Clear
The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance
Essentially, we are forced to choose. Would you rather live a life that is unbalanced, but high-performing in a certain area? …
Work-Life BalanceThe Washington Post
How 'work-life balance' became 'work all the time'
“‘Lean In’ might be a good philosophy for getting you good things in your career,” she added, …
Work-Life BalanceScott Hanselman
Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
Burning out early helps no one. WHY are we running? What are we running towards? Are you trying to get promoted, a better …
Work-Life BalanceThe Guardian
Work-life balance: flexible working can make you ill, experts say
Practices such as working from home could do more harm than good, research finds, as many employees never ‘switch …
Work-Life BalanceOn Your Terms
Fuck Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance doesn’t exist in a world where sippy cups, Algebra lessons, Swedish massage class, yoga, conference …
Digital Nomad Work-Life BalanceBloomberg
The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don't)
According to a new survey from career website Glassdoor, while work-life balance has continued to decrease over the past six …
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