work-life balance

or work/life bal·ance

[ wurk-lahyf-bal-uhns ]

/ ˈwɜrkˈlaɪf ˌbæl əns /

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noun

a situation in which one divides or balances one's time between work and activities outside of work: It's hard to achieve a reasonable work-life balance when you run your own business.

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Origin of work-life balance

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby work-life balance

working substance, working week, workingwoman, work-in-progress, work it, work-life balance, work like a beaver, work like a charm, workload, workman, workmanlike

How to use work-life balance in a sentence

Gone are the sixty-hour work weeks and rigid 9-to-5 schedules in our new normal, as realities of work-life balance — particularly when it comes to parenthood and productivity — have come swiftly into the foreground this past year.
Future of Work Forum recap: Coronavirus crisis forcing leadership to evolve|Digiday Editors|February 12, 2021|Digiday
They communicate with colleagues only when necessary, to suit their own work-life balance and need for flexibility.
Businesses adopt ‘asynchronous working’ to fight remote-working fatigue and encourage cross-border collaboration|Jessica Davies|February 9, 2021|Digiday
As with Awin, the inspiration, he noted, was a desire for work-life balance among its workforce.
Coronavirus pandemic has more employers experimenting with four-day work week|jim cooper|February 1, 2021|Digiday
Specifically, leaders are shifting away from priorities like optimizing automation toward building a workplace around the strengths of human resources and a renewed emphasis on work-life balance — a growing demand of employees.
‘Leaders who lacked empathy struggled in 2020’: Agency chiefs discuss leadership transformation|Jessica Davies|January 4, 2021|Digiday

We have seen new multifamily developments respond to work-life balance.
5 ways the post-pandemic office will look very different|Mitra Kalita|December 9, 2020|Fortune
As others have pointed out: How often do male CEOs get asked about their work-life balance?
Today’s Sperm Donor Isn’t a Broke 20-Something|Stephanie Fairyington|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I think the answer, probably, in part, to the work-life-balance issue is that men must think more about it.
Mary Robinson: Climate Change’s Gender Gap|Katie Baker|March 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Blair has spoken across the world on both issues and also on the need to improve the work/life balance for women and men.
Women in the World 2011 Participants: Cherie Blair|The Daily Beast|February 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST