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The lesson for the miserably employed on this Valentine's Day? Treat work like you'd treat a significant other: Pick and chose your battles, and remember that nothing is perfect.
It's different from the old idea of seeking a balance, which tends to treat work and life as two conflicting opposites – one all hard grind, the other all pleasure – because practitioners of the "merge" tend to be driven people who love their jobs.
Many previous time allocation studies treat work as a single activity and examine trade-offs between work and other activities.
So, although it seems silly, I've come to treat work as an extracurricular activity, scheduling whine-inducing 'projects' right there with baseball, circus and Irish dance.
How many of us treat work as a transaction versus truly caring for -- and honoring (an important concept that is rooted in the notion of Greek hospitality since ancient times) -- the needs of our co-workers and customers?
Treat work as work.
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Except for the above studies focusing on a specific practice, other researchers treat work-family balance practices as a bundle for testing their impacts on firm productivity or organizational performance (de Bloom et al., 2010; Konrad and Mangel, 2000; Perry-Smith and Blum, 2000).
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