Work-Life balance

Finally, your next long weekend is on the horizon. Maybe it’s Labor Day or Martin Luther King Day or one of the other Monday holidays that pops up throughout the year, or maybe you just decided to take a Friday for yourself. You’re going…

For the longest time, I would come home from work and immediately pop on the TV. It was mindless—after a day of meetings, intensive heads-down work, and never-ending email chains, the only thing I thought I wanted to do was watch five…

Kat, a communications consultant and freelance writer based in Chicago, says she’s been struggling with burnout since she began sheltering in place in March. She’s constantly “frazzled and sleep-deprived” and feels worried and exhausted.…

Have you recently felt exhausted or overwhelmed by everything on your to-do list? Does the idea of having a mysterious internet outage and being forced to ignore your email sound kind of nice? You might be burnt out and you wouldn’t be…

Most of us feel like we have too much to do. Day after day juggling work and personal responsibilities can leave us feeling stressed and exhausted. But are you tired and stressed, or has it all snowballed to make the feelings seem…

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One of the conceits of the movie Dodgeball was that it doesn’t take a genius to excel at the sport. Or does it? In 2020, a Tweet by sunflower begged to differ and racked up almost 1.2 million likes: “in high school our gym teacher asked us…

The classroom full of eager MBA students was sharply divided. We’d all just read the same case packet, but we’d made drastically different decisions when faced with the simple yes-or-no question: “Would you race?” We’d been asked to…

Nobody’s immune to bad days at work. You’ve had them too, right? Your to-do list and inbox feel like a giant game of whack-a-mole you can barely keep up with. You’re convinced you stuck your foot in your mouth during a team meeting and…

Working from home can be amazing (can you say “zero commute?”). But when your home is also your office, separating your work life and your personal life can be a challenge. And without that separation, it can be easy for work to start…