#worklifeblend

[vanessalja]

Arbeiten mit Urlaubsflair ... #workworkworkworkwork #work #workhardfeelgood #workhardplayhard #worklife #worklifebalance #worklifeblend #office #büro #garten #garden #terrasse #terrace #grün #green #arbeit #arbeiten #job #lovemyjob #schuften #trainer #training #trainerleben #trainerbusiness #businesstrainer #businesstraining #flow #neuulm #ulm #erfolgskatalysator #aljarenk #renk (hier: Neu-Ulm, Germany)

[gurlchatbook]

All by myself. Midday workout 🤸🏾‍♂️ 🤸🏾‍♂️ 🤸🏾‍♂️ #timeout #middaybreak #middayworkout #onthemove #worklifebalance #worklife #worklifeblend (at Washington, District of Columbia)

[meadweed-blog]

16.02.17. #worklifeblend right herrrreee. Usapang WORK, WORK out, at WORKing out. #impromptu #catchup #friendsforlife #labsforlife (at Department of Education)

[brendamonahan]

My Balance Today

I haven’t written much about work/life balance lately. I certainly still feel that my life is balanced (for the most part). I still feel there is such a thing as “balance” and I see it’s still a topic of discussion in my daily Google Alerts. 

But, something has changed for me. I see it much differently now than I did when I was giving presentations on work/life balance. Technology has become so much more prevalent in our daily lives. Escaping from the office, even when outside the office, isn’t as easy as it once seemed to be. Yet, at the same time, I feel my work and my personal life are blending and not in a bad way. 

Yes, I believe some of that is my not-so-new role at work - I spend a good amount of time on social media and training others to use social media for the purposes of being employee advocates and social sellers. I print out information on social selling and make it my bedtime reading (that actually sounds sad...I read actual books, too. Currently, I’m engrossed in Natchez Burning by Greg Iles, which is a great read!)  I’ve spent a lot of time relearning HTML and now I have a few other skills I’m attempting to develop that will help my work, but sometimes have to be done at home. 

I’ve become the master of using the time between drop-off and pick-up to take care of everyday tasks like grocery shopping, catching up with family and friends, or reading non-work-related books. Workouts are scheduled around the children’s schedules and my husband and I play this game of who can manage the chaos better (me...I manage better...just sayin’). 

So, the boundaries I have around work and personal life are different. But I’m still balanced (i.e. centered) and while my schedule is chaotic...I know my non-negotiables, my priorities, and that keeps me from becoming a complete stress-case. 

How has your balance been lately? Are you blending technology into your life or are you still separately work and home life. I don’t believe there is one right way to be balanced. I still believe it’s all about what makes you feel centered in your world.

[elainepoststhings]

What the Heck is Work-Life Blend, You Ask?

The Muse does a great job selling job listings to companies, but they do an even better job selling a certain lifestyle to the audience reading those job listings. The Muse caters to millennials’ need for “work-life blend.”

I had no clue what work-life blend meant before I started my job at Stack Overflow. I was very familiar with work life balance, given I was working at a blue chip company in the Midwest that respects employees’ family commitments. This was a benefit I appreciated objectively, but as a 22-year-old transplant from the East Coast, all I really cared about was finding purpose in my 9-to-5 job beyond earning a paycheck to fund the weekends.

Many companies are great at offering work-life balance. But many of them fail to notice that a younger generation of workers care much less about balance as they do about work-life blend. 

Think about an office—what comes to mind? Cubicles? Computers? Stuffy chairs? Suits and ties? Why can’t an office be more than a place to sit uncomfortably in front of a computer for eight hours? Lisa Bodell of futurethink talks about how innovation happens when we challenge our assumptions: what if an office were a place where employees feel happy and comfortable? What if it were a place to eat, drink, socialize, read, stay fit, and have fun. Studies have repeatedly shown that a little distraction and freedom can go a long way to boosting productivity.