I was in a meeting recently where someone said that to be an employer of choice, they had to provide work/life balance. I couldn’t disagree more.
I know this flies in the face of most traditional conversations today about the value of work/life balance. The challenge I have is that calling it ‘balance’ indicates that in some way, we will be able to find a sustainable circumstance that allows for equal or near equal engagement in life and work over time. Or that at any given moment we will have ample time or attention to give to both.
I believe this is a fallacy and that it produces stress when we aren’t able to achieve it.
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