Work-Life Balance
If you’re finding it more challenging than ever to juggle the demands of your job and the rest of your life, you’re not the only one. Many people in Namibia are putting in extra hours, or using their smartphones or laptops to be on call when they’re not physically at work.
There was a time when the boundaries between work and home were fairly clear. Today, however, work is likely to invade your personal life — and maintaining work-life balance is no simple task.
Balancing Life
If you were to stop random people in the street to ask them what the 5 most important things are in their lives chances are that work will not feature in the top 5. Maybe in rare occasions there are those of us who get to live out our ambitions and goals while being fully engaged at work. In most cases it is more “Work to live” and definitely not “live to work”.
Why then do we focus so much effort to our jobs? Often blowing off family and social events to do work and spend time with colleagues rather than family or friends?
Starting this month we will investigate this elusive concept called work-life balance.
