Most companies today promote work/life balance as one of their priorities when trying to recruit new employees. But what does that really mean? Should we really be depending on corporate Canada to define what work/life balance is for each of us? Or should we be making our own path to the balance that we seek? For the most part, we are aware of what our work priorities are on a daily basis. What we don’t know, we are told or we determine as the day progresses. Some days may be light in terms of our workload, and others may be quite heavy. It’s the heavy days that cause an imbalance and encroach on other parts of our lives if we let them. How many of us carry our laptops home at the end of the day to finish that very important report? What about those that stay at work well past a reasonable work day just to get caught up? Perhaps we are trying to get that promotion or rise in salary and feel the need to put in the hours, so that hopefully, our boss will recognize our efforts. Some people work from home when they are sick and others bring their laptops on vacation. We willingly give up precious time with family and friends in order to ‘get ahead’ in business, assuming that we will reach that point in life when we can be completely happy with where we are. But can our happiness be complete without a satisfactory personal life? How can the corporate world help us find our work/life balance if we don’t know even know what it is? The first step would be to determine … [Read more...]
