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The Conversation: Work-life balance

It's a tricky balancing act between working hard and playing hard.
Surely it can't be as hard as this.
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Sunday nights aren't what they used to be

Nov 27, 2015
Has technology freed us from the office — or tethered us to it?

One husband puts his wife's career before his own

Sep 15, 2015
What he learned from taking on the role of lead parent.
In most marriages where both work, the woman usually picks up the slack, says Andy Moravcsik
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Balancing work and life in 4 quadrants

Nov 14, 2014
The whole work/life balance question.

Divide, Google's latest buy, hardens Android security

May 20, 2014
People are using their mobile devices for work and personal life interchangeably.

Don't mess with French workers' 35 hour work week

Apr 10, 2014
Tech sector employees have struck a new collective bargaining agreement.

Some kids who have to think about work-life balance

Oct 28, 2013
Low-income youth have to pitch in and serve as another parent for their siblings.

For public good, not for profit.

Americans not taking vacation, and it hurts

Nov 27, 2012
A survey finds people will leave an average of nine days of paid vacation unused this year. The stress that comes from not taking a break can affect their health.

Getting away from the office is getting harder to do

Aug 29, 2012
A new survey finds Americans more tethered to work by their mobile devices than they ever were to landlines.