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

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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 2

Personally, I’ve worked for 45 to 55 hours a week for more than half a year. But in the last two months I’ve been trying to reduce my workload 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 reading a good book, going out with my boyfriend or learning a language. On 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 had 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 have to bear in mind my life standard. It wouldn’t be an option for me to live in a smaller flat, 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 most important?

What does Work-Life balance mean to you?
What do you think about an introduction of a three-day long weekend?

Hi Kateryna, three-days long weekend? I'm in favour to this idea! :) But unfortunately, I think that is something what in our actual economic environment almost impossible. I don't know how exactly it looks like in Germany but in Poland we still struggle from the crisis. And however, is is much better than it used to be that most of economist still tend to think that we need to work harder(wtf, do we can?), more efficiently(wtf 2) and what is horrible that we should not expect that our salaries increase. In Poland, we have very popular song which chorus is: "all you have is your dreams" :) Cheers,

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