Most of the people do shift work. Shift work create host of other medical disorders. Many people over work. Some of them are burnout at work. Stressful life and employment. Many of these have a domino effect. It has impact on personal, societal, and at a population. Is the concept of work-life balance fading away? How can we restore to a normalcy in life?How can we maintain a work-life balance in one's own life?
Maybe we should focus on how work and life can enrich each other. If both are in line with who you are/ want to be, there's no need for conflict.
If you're finding it more challenging than ever to juggle the demands of your job and the rest of your life, you're not alone.Many people are putting in extra hours, or using their smart phones to be on call when they're not physically at work,this is specially true with the healthcare and sales professionals.
Here are five ways to bring a little more balance to your daily routine:
1. Build downtime into your schedule.
2. Drop activities that sap your time or energy.
3. Rethink your errands.
4. Get moving.
5. Remember that a little relaxation goes a long way.
I suppose added some points to the discussion.
The Country has become Global village and mobility has become order of the day. so one have to follow the norms of the country . but one should also have work life balance , which is now a days fading because of lack of attachment with co-worker, group exercise in organisation helping tendencies among people . this might be the reason for such mis-balance between W-L among people.
Excellent question. In my case, even though I don't do "shift work", I get to work almost all day except for sleeping hours, and it has an enormous stress on me. I tried to cover this in a RG thread, "how do deal with too many deadlines" and it is better not to overload ourselves. During my PhD days, at the time of completion, I used to come to lab and start my typing work at 8 pm only (after dinner) and continuously work till 6 am in the morning. I would return back to my apartment around 6.30 am, and take rest till afternoon. This was a regular routine for 2 months since i had to complete my Viva by March, submit the final approved copies of thesis by April and graduation day in my University was fixed at May. It affected my normal life, and I developed some serious headache, and continuous typing resulted in such pain on my shoulders that I could barely move them. There is a Student Health Centre at my University (Wash. U., St. Louis, USA) and young doctors / practitioners treat the students. The doctor listened to me and gave me a lot of Tylenols as pain-killers. He advised me to discontinue after a week. By that time, I finished typing thesis as well. I remember that night-shift work was not very cool. I opted night shift to do my typing as that was when the lab will be relatively very free, and system will give us high speed internet connection due to less # of users.
Best wishes, Sundar
IN software industry in India, work is life and there is space for personal life.
Assuming the goal of work/life balance proponents is to foster mental health (and not just to more unproblematically extract labor), I find the concept to be counterproductive. The concepts of life or balance get considerably deformed in this formulation. At least work/non-work balance would avoid a false dichotomy.
I'm in good company here, with a handful of contributions from Maria Popova addressing the uselessness of the term. She writes:
Today, in our culture of productivity-fetishism, we have succumbed to the tyrannical notion of “work/life balance” and have come to see the very notion of “leisure” not as essential to the human spirit but as self-indulgent luxury reserved for the privileged or deplorable idleness reserved for the lazy. And yet the most significant human achievements between Aristotle’s time and our own — our greatest art, the most enduring ideas of philosophy, the spark for every technological breakthrough — originated in leisure, in moments of unburdened contemplation, of absolute presence with the universe within one’s own mind and absolute attentiveness to life without, be it Galileo inventing modern timekeeping after watching a pendulum swing in a cathedral or Oliver Sacks illuminating music’s incredible effects on the mind while hiking in a Norwegian fjord.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/11/david-whyte-three-marriages-work-life/
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/10/leisure-the-basis-of-culture-josef-pieper/
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