Category Archives: Work-life Balance
Our new study shows bad work days are too common and what causes them
5 tips to stay happy at work even when you’re very busy
Want better work-life balance? Learn from Denmark!
3 of my fellow Danes, Camilla Kring, Vivi Bach Pedersen and Anders Raastrup Kristensen have written a report on how Danish businesses have become more productive by focusing on work-life balance.
This is how they open the report:
The future can be found in Denmark. In … Continue Reading ››
The Cult of Overwork is alive and well. Sigh!
As anyone who’s ever been there or visited will attest, in Silicon Valley everyone is working *all of the time*. And while this might seem … Continue Reading ››
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The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence … Continue Reading ››
Work-life balance links
I'll round of the Work-Life Balance theme this week with a few good links about it from other blogs:
Tim King on work-life balance and thought work
You can’t see a thought-worker’s thoughts, so you can’t measure them. You have to measure what you can see, and you have two … Continue Reading ››
There is no work-life balance
One of the few moments in my life where I'm almost
guaranteed not to be thinking about work.
And that's exactly how I like it.Happy at work at DFD
This week's theme on the blog is work-life balance in honor of the Danish National Work-Life Balance week. Read my previous posts on the topic.
I was at a party last saturday, and even when there I could't stop talking about happiness at work. How's that for not being able … Continue Reading ›› Ask the CHO: What can companies do for work-life balance
This week the theme on the blog is work-life balance in honor if the National Danish Work-Life Balance Week, and Ben asks this in my first post on the topic:
If I take vacation time (even if I’m just sitting at home), I get called at least once. … Continue Reading ››