Reconcile Work with Personal Life

Work has always been part of life, but for some time now it seems to be getting increasingly difficult to strike a healthy balance, and to mark the boundary between work and personal life. For many individuals, work has become their lives. Ask yourself: is it normal to devote more time and energy to work than to your family or your own needs? A 1999 Health Canada study states that 40 percent of all Canadians say they experience a high level of conflict between work and personal life, and that between 1977 and 1987 the rate of absenteeism due to personal or family problems had doubled. By 2007, the situation had hardly changed: 81 percent of all Canadians1 hoped to strike a balance between work and personal life.