#Work-life balance

Articles (8)

• 🇺🇸 In an always-on culture, employees try 'microshifting' to reclaim personal lives — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Before the house is humming and her teenagers ask her to whip up breakfast or chauffeur them to school, Jen Meegan reads her company emails and revisits ideas she drafted the night before.

  Related: #Employee wellbeing
• 🇺🇸 I Taught My Son Everything, Except How to Take a Vacation — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  He was about to leave for college when I realized: I had never taken him on a real vacation.

  Related: #Parenting, #Mental health
• 🇬🇧 I didn’t know how much I needed work until I lost it. But now I’ve learned to love Mondays again | Adrian Chiles — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>After years of scrabbling about for jobs, I’m happy I have the right work/leisure balance: four days on, three days off</p><p>I do like Mondays. I never used to – who does? – but just recently I’ve...

  Related: #Personal resilience
• 🇺🇸 Mexico’s lower house approves bill cutting workweek to 40 hours by 2030 — 25/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Labor reform, #Economic policy, #Legislative process
• 🇺🇸 Kristen Bell on Hosting the Actor Awards, Being Cut From Her Big Screen Debut in ‘Pootie Tang’ and Why She Turns Off Phone Every Day at 5 P.M. — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Kristen Bell is very busy. Not only is she preparing to star in a workshop of a new stage musical, “Three Months Later,” in Los Angeles, but she’s also getting ready to shoot Season 3 of her hit Netfl...

  Related: #Career versatility, #Hollywood journey
• 🇬🇧 Do you have a ‘competence hangover’? | Emma Beddington — 22/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>It’s what happens when people, especially women, are overworked and underappreciated. Time for all the incompetent slackers to step up ...</p><p>Are you bone-deep exhausted and struggling to cope? ...

  Related: #Workplace burnout, #Gender inequality, #Mental health
• 🇺🇸 Future Perfect — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Does taking care of our future selves have to mean sacrifice in the present?

  Related: #Behavioral psychology, #Self-control
• 🇬🇧 Beth Rigby: You know me best as Sky's political editor - my job at home might be even harder — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  You know me best as Sky News's political editor, but I am also a mum to two teenagers aged 13 and 16.

  Related: #Journalism, #Family