My coachee started our session with a sad face. “I couldn’t do the action plan. I thought about work all weekend.” His action plan was to focus on different experiences to try to avoid jumping to work ...

Pay attention. The importance of work-life balance is growing. Employees want more flexibility in their work, better stress management, less burnout and improved delineations between their work and ...

Bing. Another email. Bzzzz. A text message. Bloop-bloop. An incoming video call. In today’s fast-paced, always-connected world, email and text alerts arrive at all hours, deadlines creep into weekends ...

Whatever work we do—paid or volunteer, working in the home or outside the home—the boundaries between personal, family, and work life can often run together. Many of us struggle to juggle our ...

The more I chased balance in my life, the more I realized I was missing the point. It’s not about hours or schedules. It’s about perspective. And once I changed mine, everything changed. Presence ...

Balance is relative — what feels balanced varies from person to person, and the key lies in defining what it means to you. True balance comes from the quality and joy of the time spent rather than the ...

Between work and personal responsibilities, achieving an ideal work-life balance can be difficult. In a perfect world, of course, what your dream job demands of you and your personal life would be two ...

Work-life balance isn’t just your employer’s responsibility. In fact, it’s not even mainly theirs. It’s yours. Sure, employers should take steps to support a healthy balance for their workforce. Many ...

Balance. The word itself evokes images of a perfectly aligned scale, neither side tipping too far in either direction. Yet, achieving balance has never felt more difficult. According to Gallup's 2024 ...

Work-life balance used to be a simple idea: finish work, go home, and enjoy the rest of your day. But in today’s hyperconnected world, those boundaries have blurred into a single, endlessly ...

"Work-life balance" has been a buzzphrase for so long that it's nearly the default perspective about work these days, at least in theory, if not in practice. But a resurfaced interview with one CEO ...