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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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.
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They communicate with colleagues only when necessary, to suit their own work-life balance and need for flexibility.
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As with Awin, the inspiration, he noted, was a desire for work-life balance among its workforce.
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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.
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We have seen new multifamily developments respond to work-life balance.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
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“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
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His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.
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A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
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Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
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We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
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