Posts Tagged ‘worklife balance’
making work life balance work
Nice TED talk on work life balance, courtesy of Nigel Marsh, for a Friday afternoon. In summary: 1. Gimmicks like dress down Friday don’t work. We are working long and hard hours in jobs we hate, buying things we don’t need to impress people we don’t like. That is the hub of the issue. 2. Governments […]
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I started work (proper work…the kind where you actually have to go all the time and not just pop in for a shift now and again) when I was 22. I worked the summer after I graduated doing university tours and clearing support and then landed a job at Giga. Giga (an International analyst firm […]
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Tags: mentors, rules, work, worklife balance
does worklife balance exist?
According to Jack Welch, former CEO GE last week in the WSJ, it is officially dead. However, i think the problems arise when people try to compartmentalise their work and their home lives. Wireless data has meant we can be contacted/stay in touch on the move. Great, whereas once we would have been working til […]
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