Define work life balance, please.
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For me, it's simple! Work-life balance is all about finding that sweet spot/balance between your career and personal life.
That is literally what the phrase means…
To me, it means having clear boundaries between work and personal life. I have enough time to enjoy my personal life and I'm able to switch off work.
But most importantly, it doesn't feel like work is consuming my life. If it feels like that, then there's no balance.
That's the most helpful description I've heard in a while. Feeling "on call" makes that difficult
You don’t spend all waking hours focused on work. If you can’t figure out how to live a balanced life, you’re prolly the wrong person to handle accounts. Your question is a huge professional red flag. Imbalanced account managers always mismanage their clients.
Couldn’t be agreed anymore. Totally 💯“if you can not manage your own account how can you manage others account”. It’s gonna be a mess in the end.
Being able to switch off from work to life. Being in environments where people respect their boundaries
Work/life balance is knowing when you need extra time for work and when personal time/family needs your attention. It’s definitely a “balancing” act. In my experience it’s often not 40 hours, 9-5 days at work. There are peak times that require 10-12+ hours a day or perhaps a couple hours on the weekend, especially if you travel. I think it helps if your employer trusts you and you don’t take advantage. In my case I feel comfortable and supported if I “flex” my time. I will take a couple hours or even half day to do personal errands, while monitoring email for anything crucial that comes in, when I’m approaching or coming off a travel week without taking PTO (I am exempt from OT).
I try to be aware of not responding to emails outside of work hours/weekends unless it is urgent. You have to set realistic boundaries and expectations for yourself/peers and customers. I always cringe when I get emails from coworkers outside work hours. I pity the workaholic that wants to show their worth by working non-stop, I want to send the steps for Microsoft delay delivery and stress it’s not a strength and really not good for them, our culture or customers.
For me it's about mental space.
If work issues can't clear their way from your mind during activities you otherwise enjoy then it can be problematic.
Once upon a time, I had a gig in collections with a hard-out at 4:30pm and time off for every holiday on the calendar. But, the job was so rough on me mentally that the time I spent outside of work: hiking, going to concerts, etc... There was always an element of it that was essentially coping from my job.
As I've grown professionally, the idea of shutting down for the day at 4:30 would probably cost me my livelihood, but, if I'm out with friends or walking my dogs I'm actually in the moment for it.
My recovery time is no longer every second outside of work and that's more important than the hours I'm putting in during the week.
Assuming you don’t have it?
Looking back, almost every job I've had eventually creeps in. Some memorable positive exceptions.
Work 8ish to 6ish. Occasional over time as needed but shouldn’t be everyday. After these hours everything is my time. No work phone. No checking emails. Basically this time is for me and my family.
You as an employee define work-life balance. You need to put up your own definition of what you will or will not take that creeps over to your personal life. You define the boundaries I don’t expect more than 40 hrs a week if you are efficient with your time. If you waste time during the week by crossing the two (doing the personal stuff while WFH) you will have to cross work into your personal time. You create W/L balance. If the company you work for gives you 60+ hours of work per week then you are in the wrong company.
That last part is important. Time block planning all work streams shows that the workload simply isn't possible for one person to complete in 40 hrs
It's about finding a rhythm that works for you, a sweet spot where your career aspirations coexist harmoniously with your personal desires. It's like a delicate dance between crushing deadlines and catching up on reality TV (we all have our guilty pleasures).