Tag: work-life balance

You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.

Can we imagine an economy built for free time?

Is it because we don’t want to, because we can’t, or is there something else at play?

Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?

In a recent thought-provoking review of research on the default mode network, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the University of Southern California and her co-authors argue that when we are resting the brain is anything but idle and that, far from being purposeless or unproductive, downtime is in fact essential to mental processes that affirm our […]

The new Ohio State football coach made a promise to his family that he’d put them first. Will he keep it? Eighty or so people filed into the school cafeteria. Urban and his wife, Shelley, joined their daughter at the front table, watching as Gigi stood and spoke. She’d been nervous all day, and with […]

A call for women and men to have a more honest conversation about work-life balance: Today, however, women in power can and should change that environment, although change is not easy. When I became dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, in 2002, I decided that one of the advantages of being a woman in power […]