Balance is no longer the key.
For most people, Work-Life balance doesn't exist anymore. We’re no longer rationing 8 hours of the day for work, 8 hours for personal, and 8 hours for sleep. We’re losing at the balancing act where one side of the scale is work and the other is personal. It’s through no fault of our own. The world and the rules of the game have changed.
Technology has made it that your work, your manager, and your company can and have creeped into your life outside the walls of the office. With such a foundational shift in the environment, we need to drastically shift our perspective from “Work-Life Balance” to “Work-Life Integration”. It’s no longer about compartmentalizing one from the other but figuring out how they can both be fully present so neither is giving way to the other. It’s less about competition and more about synergy.