Most of the discussion and advice for work-life balance tends to focus on changing individual career decisions, or team expectations, or organizational contexts. But what if other factors — like our upbringing — mattered as well? 148 in-depth interviews with 78 working parents based in London revealed that the work-life balance of their own parents played a role in shaping their behaviors and attitudes around balancing work and life. Most subjects fell into one of the four categories: (1) They willingly adopted their parents’ model of work-life balance; (2) they unintentionally adopted their parents’ model; (3) they willingly rejected their parents’ model; or (4) they unintentionally rejected their parents’ model.
We’re obsessed with work-life balance. There’s no shortage of research, articles, and self-help books trying to help us find and restore a balance between our work and nonwork lives. However, most of the discussion and advice tends to focus on changing individual career decisions, or team expectations, or organizational contexts. But what if other factors mattered as well?
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https://hbr.org/2017/10/your-feelings-about-work-life-balance-are-shaped-by-what-you-saw-your-parents-do?fbclid=IwAR0LewuHXcjwTVqWeqWaNd-5Yo5SKiUf_3PqSev2QldB4sFkyN7A69bL4zs
