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Handling Company Pressure and Your Work/Life Balance: A Real Life Story

October 18th, 2010

Finding you work/life balance isn’t always easy. You may need to get creative, like Jane did. But what if you, like Jane, work in an environment where face time is very important? Perhaps your co-workers and your boss keep different hours than you: they could begin their day at 11 a.m. while you start yours at eight. If this is the case and you are determined to keep those unusual hours, like Jane, than here are a few tips to help you succeed.

Tags: Company Pressure, Work/Life Balance, time management

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Comment posted on 02/23/2011 at 10:36 pm

It wouldn't bother childfree colleagues so long as any employee, with or without children, male or female, had the option to have a 3 day workweek if they provide the same value. It would only be discriminatory, and thus resented if a person who had chosen to have kids had special privileges regardless of performance.

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Comment posted on 02/24/2011 at 05:20 am

In response to thhe 23.02 posting, my comment is: don't focus on resenting others who have chosen their path - set a goal that works for you and focus on getting there!

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Comment posted on 03/28/2011 at 07:56 pm

The point of my comment about it being resented if only parents had the option for a part time schedule wasn't to focus on resentment. Your message about finding balance and pursuing it is valid. I've been fortunate that the owner of our company supports my having a flexible schedule even though I am a director and corporate officer. What I wanted to emphasize is that if we want to foster widespread support for flexibility in the workplace instead of resentment and resistance, it has to be inclusive and fair. Policies should allow mothers AND fathers time to spend time with their children, young adults time to help care for a grandparent, or childfree men and women time to volunteer for charities or give to the community. Or for those who prefer, the option to work longer hours. When everyone has this opportunity for balance, society as a whole benefits. If parents only support parents or women only support women, we lose sight of our commonalities as humans and our ability to empathize with those who choose other paths. Yes we set our own goals and pursue them but we would be selfish to not seek ways to support our colleagues in finding the same balance we value for ourselves.