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Work-Life Balance Is Impossible. Experts Say Try This Instead.

The phrase has been plastered on HR slide decks and wellness seminars for so long that it’s lost all contact with reality.

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What does “work-life balance” even mean these days? Because from where most people are standing, it kinda looks like answering Slack messages while half-watching TV at 8 p.m., or working by the pool on vacation and calling it “blessed.”

The phrase has been plastered on HR slide decks and wellness seminars for so long that it’s lost all contact with the reality of what people’s days actually look like. Dayna Lee-Baggley, a psychologist specializing in mental health in the workplace, wrote in Psychology Today that the idea of “balance” suggests two things sitting on opposite ends of a scale, level and still. But........

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