Are there a different?

We always hear the term work-life balance since I set foot in the working environment like 18 years ago. Since then, we always tell ourselves or anyone that we should have a work-life balance especially in Asian country.

Work-Life Balance is basically to have a good time between work and leisure or family time to self care. It’s usually has a standard time schedule for just everything.

Work-Life Integration is quite a new term that describe an approach that creates more synergies between all areas that define ‘life’: work, home/family, community, personal well-being, and health.”

Here is a scenario for someone who practice of work life integration might choose to have breakfast with the family and drop off the kids at school, then work from 9am to noon, then eat lunch and go to the gym, then attend a work meeting in the afternoon, then pick up the kids and make dinner, and respond to emails for a couple hours before bedtime.

Work-life Integration may not a ‘Perfect Solution’ to you. Why?

You could end up integrating work into every area of your life without integrating much of life into your workday. Or you may find yourself constantly thinking about work even when you want to pay attention to others priorities. And to me, it has no standard schedule time properly between work and life. Anything is based on priority on each thing now. There is always good and bad on everything. Most important, we need to find a best way that suit into our life.

Make Your Own Choice!