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Work/life balance
The topic of work/life balance made headlines again this week after a wealthy businessman resigned as head of a trillion-dollar investment fund to spend more time with his family.
Former PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian said he made the decision after his 10-year-old daughter gave him a 22-point list of all the milestones he had missed in her life, including her first day of school, a soccer match, a parent-teacher meeting and a Halloween parade.
“My work-life balance had gotten way out of whack, and the imbalance was hurting my very special relationship with my daughter,” El-Erian wrote in a Worth.com article that has since gone viral.
He joins other high-profile business leaders who have publicly discussed the challenges of finding work-life balance, from PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi to Max Schireson, CEO of MongoDB.
In a widely publicized blog entry, Schireson noted: “As a male CEO, I have been asked what kind of car I drive and what type of music I like, but never how I balance the demands of being both a dad and a CEO.”
With all the media attention on work-life balance, what’s the solution? From a global perspective, U.S. employees are working harder than ever. According to an infographic from www.businessinsurance.org, Americans are the world leader in productivity per person – but at a cost.
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