| I started this new job a couple of weeks ago and I'm having a lot of trouble with my work-life balance. In my last job we had fixed hours. We had to be at the office at 9.00 on the dot and we always finished at exactly 5.00. Any work we hadn't finished we could just leave for the next day. But this new job‘s very different. I mean, in this job, we can come into the office any time between 8.00 and 10.00 in the morning. Then we can choose whether to have a lunch break or not. Then it gets a bit complicated .....Ummm..... If we have a lunch break we can leave between 4.00 and 6.00. If we don't have a lunch break. we can go home between 3.00 and 5.00. OK, well at first this system sounded really good, especially for me because I have young children. But, the problem is that, if we haven't finished our work, we have to finish it off at home. So it's actually very difficult to draw the line between work and home. For example, on Mondays I can leave the children at school, go to the gym and get into the office quite late. But I can't take a lunch break, because I need to leave early to pick the children up from school. They come out at 4.00. And then I have to work from home in the evening to finish what I have to do. |
