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work-life balance

or work/life bal·ance

[ wurk-lahyf bal-uhns ]

noun

  1. a situation in which one divides or balances one's time between work and activities outside of work:

    It's hard to achieve a reasonable work-life balance when you run your own business.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of work-life balance1

First recorded in 1975–80
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Over the next two months, audiences obsessed over the show’s seductive examination of work-life balance and the different guises we wear throughout the day.

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Britt, what really spoke to me about “Severance” was its exploration of grief, but within that too, there’s the corporate overreach and the work-life balance that I think all of us can appreciate.

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Did it show you anything about how you navigate your work-life balance or what you could do better?

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“Every year, our company makes us fill out this survey,” she continued, “and every single year, the results show that people want a better work-life balance and more work-from-home flexibility. For them to do the opposite of that, and slap us with a five-day, in-office schedule just feels disrespectful … especially in this industry, where so much work is done outside the office.”

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Training as a sushi chef is notoriously rigorous, usually with long work hours and minimal work-life balance.

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