Work life balance

AS THE CORONAVIRUS crisis continues, it’s becoming clear that the extraordinary pressures on our daily lives are not subsiding any time soon.

Employees working from home have to confront the lack of a practical boundary between work and personal time. Working parents whose children are now at home must make impossible choices about how to split their days. Those choices are made more confusing by the rapid fluctuation of conditions as some areas reopen and as businesses themselves face existential crises and shortages of staff that call for more of their leaders’ attention, not less.

How can you balance so many demands sustainably? Most work/life balance survival tactics come back to the basics, even if the basics look a little different now: Identify your priorities (we’re all a little more clear-eyed now about what’s important in life). Communicate with your family. Rely on your colleagues and friends. Set better boundaries.