Some researchers are now encouraging us to stop thinking about work-life balance as an achievement that you either hit or don’t. “I don’t think it’s such a simple formula.”Īnd, according to new findings, it may not be. And once you’ve reached it, congratulations: you’ve made it you’re a successful human being of the 21st Century.īut the problem is that we often tell ourselves: “’I’m going to put in eight hours’ worth of work, and then I’m going to put in eight hours’ worth of me time, which will include my family, my hobbies, my workout, my everything’,” says Anat Lechner, clinical associate professor of management at New York University. The concept is often presented as something to achieve, or a goal to reach.
The quest to attain this somewhat nebulous state has dominated discourse around careers for years – especially for working parents.
Few topics have been so endlessly analysed, glorified and dissected as work-life balance.
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