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Work Life Balance

Whether you work to live or live to work, too much of one and not enough of the other is never good. We know people work long hours and no one ever got promoted by spending less time at the office, but work/life balance is becoming more important than it's ever been. We've got tips and expert advice on how to create and sustain that balance so you'll be happy both at home and at work.

Work Life Balance Advice

  • 10 Things You Should Never Tell Your Boss

    Does it make sense to promote someone with kids or a chronic illness when another employee is free of those obligations or difficulties? By revealing some private information to your boss, you could set yourself back when it comes to a … Read more...

  • Moms & the Art of Delegation

    Many moms think they have to do everything or nothing will get done. But learning how to effectively delegate tasks is a skill moms can use both in and outside of the home. Read more...

  • 12 Ways Working Moms Can Rebalance Work & Life

    Outside the vacuum-sealed fluorescent-lit corridors and beyond the pitted asphalt of the remote parking lot, it shimmers with vague yet enticing promises of renewal and restoration -- home. And so you press forward, one patent-pumped … Read more...

  • 70-Year-Old Census Records Highlight Shifts in the Working World

    For many of us today, working means cubicles and computers and commutes. It means colleagues who have graduated high school, and many who have also finished college. It means earning tens of thousands of dollars every year. But recently … Read more...

  • Working Too Much? Go Home Already!

    Pamela Selle wants you to go the heck home. Seriously. If it is 6 p.m. or if you are done with your projects for the day or your brain is just burned out from the last eight hours of staring at a monitor, Selle says, just go home. It's … Read more...

  • How Can Busy Parents Get Ahead at Work?

    Q: Hello, you don't know me, but I saw your profile on Salary.com. You look so happy in your picture and I would love to see myself so accomplished in the near future! Do you have any advice for a hard working creative woman like me? I've … Read more...

  • Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords: Privacy Concern or Evolution of the Job Interview?

    More than two weeks after the Associated Press reported on the trend of employers demanding access to applicants' Facebook accounts, politicians, job hunters and the social network itself continue to grapple with the story's ramifications. Read more...

  • 13 Tips to Make the Most of Your Commute

    It is the solid white line between work and the rest of your life. The daily two-part trek that either bookends your workday with orderly support or allows it to spill outside of its designated boundaries. Your commute. The most public … Read more...

  • Wasting Time at Work 2012

    A Facebook status update here, a Tweet there and maybe you find that perfect dinner recipe on Pinterest. In this day and age most jobs require a computer, most computers have the Internet and distractions to workers are plentiful. But how … Read more...

  • Mourning One of Our Own

    Our salary information allows people to better negotiate a starting salary so they can earn more money. Money which then gives them the ability to do things like buy a house, get married, start a family and begin saving for retirement. And … Read more...