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Work-Life Balance Part 2
Personally, I’ve worked for 45 to 55 hours a week for more than half a year. But in the last two month I’ve been trying to reduce my working hours to 40 or 45. If I’m going to work out in the gym in the evening, that usually means that I don’t have any time in the evening to do something for myself like to read a good book, to go out with my boyfriend or to learn a language. At the weekend I have to do all the home chores like cleaning my flat, cooking and ironing the shirts for work. So, there is not really much time to do something that I would like either. But if I would have to work only four days a week, I would do all the chores like shopping and ironing on Friday and could enjoy my weekend and really get some recreation.
On the other hand, if I’m thinking about getting paid less I bear in mind my life standard. That wouldn’t be an option for me to live in a flat that is smaller, because the flat I’m living in now is as small as it could possibly be. And it is not an option to eat unhealthy cheap food. And so on. So where is the golden mean? And what is more important?
What does Work-Life balance mean to you?
What do you think about an introduction of a three-days long weekend?
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Work-Life Balance Part 1
What would you think about a law to introduce a working week that would last only four days. So that everybody would get a three-days long weekend. Wouldn’t that be great?
Recently I’ve heard a rumor that such an idea has been discussed in german media and with german law-makers.
But what that would mean for us employees?
Nowadays everybody is talking about work-life balance. Normally a typical job includes a 40 hours long working week. But in the modern economy there are a lot of positions, where you have to work for 60 or even 80 hours a week.
If you are occupying such a job position that normally means, that your private life is nearly nonexistent. A few friends of mine, who are working 60-70 hours a week are usually complaining that they couldn’t build a relationship, that would last long. The enormous level of stress and the job where you’re sitting for the most time of the day don’t do any good for your health. The lack of sleep wouldn’t contribute to a good health either. In addition to it, it is difficult to have and rise children.
I read an article a few weeks ago about a famous big enterprise, that is operating in finance and their plan to increase the working hours of the employees officially to 60 hours a week in order to avoid work at the week-ends. So if you’re working nearly 55 to 60 hours a week and then you have to work at the weekend additionally, you could imagine there is no time left for recreation and private life. You could say you’re living to work and not working to live. That couldn’t be the purpose of out lives, could it?
On the other hand we should think of our economy. If we would work less, then it would be difficult to improve the GDP of the country we’re living in. And that would affect us all.
It would be too expensive for the enterprises not to cut the salaries respectively. So, if we would get less salary, but the prices would stay at the current level (and surely will), out life standard would decrease. So the question would be, what is more important for us? And what does a good life standard mean for a person?
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