Work-Life Balance

Many times we are confronted with the concept of work-life balance. How to achieve it and the best practice for it. The best companies that offer this to their employees. Work-life balance is the having the equilibrium between professional life and personal life. But first, how do we define the equilibrium point? Is it 50%:50%? What should be the right proportion? Work-life means different things to different people and to different levels in the organizational hierarchy. For example, a CEO of a multinational has to be in contact with his or her surbordinates distributed in different countries and working under different time lag. What should be his or her work-life balance? What of a worker at the bottem of the hierarchy? It is obvious that the higher up one goes in the hierarchy, the more the responbility and as a result, the balance tends to skew to the professional more than personal. It is ironical that everybody knows this, but tries to complain. People want to be promoted to the senior position so they can receive higher salary. With higher salary comes more responsibility and less personal life. So, instead of discussing the life-work balance, one should first define what he wants. Do you prefer to be at the bottom of the hierarchy, receiving less and having a good balance? Or would you do the contrary? The choice is yours!