Re-prioritising key to successful work-life balance

As ennui and exhaustion takes over, forward looking companies develop ways to assist their workers in better managing their work-life balance.

For more than a year now many have been getting used to a new way of working from home. For some, this has been a long – waited release from the nightmarish commutes, while some have been longing back to the office. However, almost all have, at some point, been missing the face-to-face human interaction we were used to with our colleagues and friends, as the meetings and chats over a lunch or a cup of coffee have turned into instant messages, emails and Zoom calls.

This new way of working has also brought a new need to learn how to manage work-life balance in these changed circumstances. Since the pandemic began, at-home workspaces have obscured the line between work and personal lives and working longer to send that one last email has become easier, even expected in some cases. As a consequence, many have ended up struggling to manage their time between work and free-time. For a HSBC contractor Jonny Frostick, who wrote a viral Linkedin post about reprioritising his life, the realisation came when he was lying in a hospital bed after a heart
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