We may be getting requests for better work-life balance all wrong
Viewing younger employees as entitled or unambitious when they ask for better work-life balance is a blinkered response.
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Younger employees are adjusting to a difficult reality around a longer working life and choosing a more sustainable pace of progress, says the writer.
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Yeo Chuen Chuen
A hiring manager in her 40s thought she had found the perfect graduate. Then she asked where he hoped his career would lead.
“I haven’t thought that far,” he replied. “I just want to enjoy life and have work-life balance.”
