Work-Life Balance – Is There Really Such a Thing?


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Work-life balance is a type of a mystery similar to the loch de ness monster. It’s elusive and you will always wonder if such a thing actually exists. Recently, I read a piece that said top executive women actually call it “the merge”.  Now a merge is a term borrowed from the business world, and the connotation of it implies that just like when two companies merge, some parts benefit and some parts suffer. More recently, I heard another term for it – work-life harmony - now that sounds better and have a positive connotation, don’t you think? Interestingly, a woman used the merge analogy, while a man used the “harmony” one– a coincidence? I’ll leave it to you to interpret…