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You CAN Go Home Again!

Work.  Play.  It’s getting so that you can’t tell them apart anymore. It’s great when you enjoy your work so much that it feels like play.  But what happens when even play starts to feel like work.

The primary reason for this is job stress that goes home with you.  It also arises when there is no outer boundary on work hours - what we used to admire as workaholic behaviour.  It can lead to marital breakdown, substance abuse, anxiety, and chaos.  All of which travels back down the pipeline from home to the office. 

As team leader or organization, if you manage as though your employees' lives outside of work are unimportant, you manage wrong.  The workaholic is no longer a model employee.  Eventually, a private life that suffers will also become a problem in the workplace.  Job pressure rises, productivity and creativity fall off, absenteeism climbs along with medical and compensation costs.  Retention is at risk.

You get the picture: there can be no first-rate workplace productivity without the realization that there is a “whole” person with a real life outside of work . . . and less and less time to do more and more. 

What do you do? 

You put quality of life first.  Offer employees a new incentive for working smarter and enjoying work more.