Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sho Dewan is a career expert who covers work, top jobs, and business. We’ve been taught to chase work-life balance as though work ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Corporate professionals often feel the pressure to be ...

Work-life balance isn’t just your employer’s responsibility. In fact, it’s not even mainly theirs. It’s yours. Sure, employers should take steps to support a healthy balance for their workforce. Many ...

Researchers readily acknowledge that the concept of work-life balance has been elusive to define and often even more elusive to achieve. "Work" encompasses a wide range of experiences, and "life" is ...

Balance is relative — what feels balanced varies from person to person, and the key lies in defining what it means to you. True balance comes from the quality and joy of the time spent rather than the ...

If you’re tired of refreshing Outlook before your daughter’s first dance recital or your boss denying PTO, moving to New Zealand may be the new answer to combating your 9-to-5 burnout. A new measure ...

American workers are valuing their work-life balance more than ever after an intensive period of fully-remote working which showed swathes of the workforce that it was possible to get the job done, ...

Did you know that only two of the world’s top ten largest economies, Germany and Canada, feature in the top 10 of the Global Life-Work Balance Index 2025? Despite their economic weight, most major ...