Let's talk WORK-LIFE BALANCE - how many hours should you work per day? 

Honestly I feel like 8h is A LOT and I would love to reduce 8h to 6h. I feel like all my energy is spent on work and after 5pm not much can be done if you have to commute, cook, clean up, etc. Deffo a huge fan of a 4-day workweek :). Great vid Paige!

Thank you for that last point about hours worked not equating to you being a lesser/lazy person! Lots of us disabled and chronically ill folk are just as ambitious but have a nightmare juggling health vs. work, let alone work-life balance. Most of us learn the hard way that working fewer hours at our 'best' achieves far more than trying to struggle through more rigid, longer days with a body/brain that feels like it's disintegrating 😅😂

In my opinion, I think that people of all ages should work 5 to 6 hours. 7-8 hours is a bit too much.

Thank you for pointing out that working fewer hours doesn't mean being lazy. Because I have to say that my priorities have changed over the last few years. In my early and mid 20's my priority was to get a job with good career opportunities and a good salary. But at the age of 29, I realized that's not what I really wanted. I needed to prioritize my boundaries, my (mental) health and my personal life, so I changed my job from 40 hours a week (which is the typical working hours in a full-time job here in Germany, but I wasn't able to switch off after work) as a software developer to 30 hours a week as an accountant and I couldn't be happier with my decision.

Loving the work content!

I work in the charity sector and I really struggle around feeling guilty setting boundaries and having a work life balance when I know my salary is paid for by donations!

Well firstly when I was checking my feeds was not expecting to see a feed from you so soon . So thank you . Secondly I really don’t think you have anything to worry about . Articulate , intelligent , funny ,entertaining and media presence 👍. Advice I really don’t think you need any , you really are an allrounder 😊. 20s to 30s mix of work hard and play hard . Set yourself up for success and don’t be ashamed to achieve that . Work life balance is all relative to what you need or want to achieve . Carry on as you are going I have no doubt you will be a success , in all you do 😊

As a teacher I feel like I have no autonomy over the hours I work - it is expected that you are prepared for every lesson, mark student work, reply to emails, write reports etc etc, yet you don’t actually get time during “office hours” to do these things

Ahhh... I truly needed this right now Paige😅

I work in consulting (a big 4 company ), so not an environment known for its work-life-balance. Personally, I think you should work the hours that are in your contract, with overtime defo being the exception. That being said, my 40 hr week is a slog sometimes and I'm all for trying out new models for work. I'd love to work part-time, that may not be a wise decision in regards to income, pension etc. It's not easy to figure out. Edit: I have some previous experience with burn out, so I made a decision never ever to work past 7pm. And no work on the weekend either. If that means others will get ahead of me in my industry, so be it ;)

First of all: JCBC W1: head of the river! It's natural to be pushing a little harder at this point in your career. You've plenty of intellectual energy to invest and plenty of career advancement as a reward. If there's one thing NatSci teaches you, it's time management. The key test is that when you wake up in the morning you're looking forward to the day.

Very good tips and discussion. Hours lived is a great counter to hours worked.

it is fine to say most people work 9 until 5 but I have not done that for years. I work flexi so as long as I do my standard hours in a month, I can pretty much please myself what time I start and finish. It ranges from I can start as early as 7am and finish as early as 3.30pm

I work in PR and contracted to work 9-5 like majority in the industry. However it is a very full on and time-consuming job (we work with clients and journalists every single day) so I I’m always pushing the 9 hour mark. There needs to be greater transparency about work hours. I know companies hide it because then they’d have to pay more or shorten the working day but I wish more was done

I left a private sector job 10 weeks ago where I was encouraged to work anything from 9-12 hours per day with no clear breaks. I now work in the public sector (for an organisation you will know v.well 😉) and they encourage a 7 hour day with an HOUR for lunch 😱 I don’t know what to do with myself 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh how I needed this video!! I work 8-5 and I'm still at college - i have to finish writing my final paper - but when I log off from work at 5pm (or 6pm sometimes😅) I just want to close my eyes and do nothing!! Can you share some tips on how you keep yourself motivated to study after your job hours? Thanks ❤️

Hi Paige! First of all would you please tell us where did you buy that dress! Looks fantastic on you! 😍😍

If your work requires overtime it means the business is not organising projects effectively. They should plan for how long it will take and set those expectations to clients for an 7-8 work day. I think culture should be changed. My company sees the need for overtime as a sign you have not managed your time effectively - you don’t get in trouble but you get encouraged to ask for help and get free productivity coaching.

thank you, very interesting! for me, work-life-balance is my top prority. This was different in my 20s, though, now I'm in my 30s

Up front: I am far outside your demographic group. As you grow, all of these will change; paradigms should change with them. I was told by a mentor: Remember, you lead people and manage things. That is in your future. Hard to “chill” when others depend on you. Moving up in a dynamic high functioning organization means you will need to always as, “Why am I doing this?” Best Always

That’s interesting! In the US the standard working hours is 8 hours not including break 😊

I feel like people often overlook that we need time to shut our brain off from work before we’re receptive to anything restful. Or it could just be me

The corpus clock is back

To answer you questions. I work 12 hours no lunch break Work life balance is horrible when you work 12 hours at night Your day is sleeping not a lot of off days No not content with work life balance I am back in school (during the day when I would normally be sleeping ) to change my job The industry I work for 12 hours is mandatory Don’t get compensated for it. My pay is horrible No I needed money No choice I have to work 12 hours

Americans we work such long hours. Also Americans let’s plan a meeting to plan the meeting about the job instead of just doing the job. Been there seen it.

~39hour per week ! incl. daimler benz mercedes....um...citaro not mine 😢 for me perfect can not lay down 200k + €uromony for a wagon but drive planty hours very well 😘 self cleaning water bottle , paige y is this really for need ? one metric liter is drunk in few hours AND the employees at a recycling company have reasons for their future to work on... self cleaning household products eliminate work-space (unemployed) !!! relationships are based on income mony plus income-tax

I have found over a number of years that if you work in a profession, at a certain level you are really on call 24/7 and cannot dictate hours of work. If a job has to be done within a time frame, it has to be done. End of story. If you don't like that lifestyle, find something else to do.

Less than you 😂

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲? The still, vegetative and animate levels of nature are the only ones in a state of balance, because they have no free choice. They make no decisions as to whether they should behave one way or another, but they behave according to their inborn nature. We people, however, act according to our decisions that are higher than our inborn nature. We thus use these levels of nature-still, vegetative and animate, which are below our human level-egoistically, bending them however we wish for personal benefit. We thus destroy and empty the planet, plant life, animals, and eventually also people, due to the egoistic way we relate to each other and nature. The system we live in was set up so that we reach a state of mutual consideration, encouragement and support. That is the key to entering into a state of balance with nature. By acting contrarily, with calculations of self-benefit overriding those of benefiting each other and nature, we then knock ourselves out of balance with nature. Then, we experience this imbalance as suffering on personal, social and economic scales, and also as ecological blows, whether it be earthquakes, floods, wildfires, pandemics and several other phenomena that we call “natural disasters.” The more we head into the future without transforming our attitudes to each other and nature-from egoistic to altruistic-then the more we will experience our tightening interdependence negatively. However, if we start relating in a considerate, supportive and encouraging way to each other, then we will see how nature also relates positively to us. Accordingly, we will unlock a new balanced, harmonious and peaceful existence.