Questions tagged [work-life-balance]
Issues about balancing the demands of both work and non-work activities.
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Workplace relationships [closed]
My fiancé and I have worked together directly in the company we are with for a while now, and we disclosed our relationship to them in the very beginning. Can they after a year of knowing we were ...
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What is the work-life balance and pay like as a investment banker?
I'm looking to go into investment banking (IB) or venture capital (VC) after university and have heard many stories about what life is like working in these industries.
My question more so relates to ...
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Work-from-anywhere or not a good idea? [duplicate]
I started my job couple months ago and I want to go see my family in another country for two weeks.
I also want to focus on my work since I am working at a slow pace and my manager has also showed ...
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My employer is demanding that I change my lifestyle
I work as a researcher in Germany and have recently been approached by the boss's secretary and told what can be summarized as follows:
Hey, we pay you one of the top salaries in our research group, ...
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I work remote but CEO is not happy no one is using the shiny new office space, new mandate that everyone has to work 3 days in the office (UK) [closed]
Background: I am employed as a remote Senior/Mid C# developer at a local-ish company. I have worked remotely for over 10 years at various companies with the usual caveat that comes with all remote ...
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How to prevent stress on the job from affecting my well-being
I'm working in the EU at a job where the expectation is that you will work 12+h/ day. When I open my laptop on the weekend I see half of my team is there. (It's a typical Monday though Friday office ...
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Meeting people (a friend) during remote work day
I'm a software developer working remotely at a lab here in the US. I recently finished college, and I've started working here after past internships at this lab (and at another different lab before). ...
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What questions should I ask myself before quitting a job?
I feel lost at work lately. It feels like I do not have a clear purpose anymore. Motivation is low, I cannot find challenges anymore. I am asking myself constantly, if it is the time to leave and look ...
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How does one develop the mentality to suck it up and work without developing negativity about their job?
I have been working as a software developer for over 1.5 years now. Over this time I have changed jobs twice and I am currently in my 3rd job. The problem is that, in all of my jobs, I quickly start ...
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How do you make group discussions work with people in very different timezones?
The company where I work is fully-remote, and to the extent possible we genuinely try to find the best people, irrespective of location. That's great, but it also means that we have people spanning ...
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How do I tactfully tell a problematic colleague that doesn't get the hint that I don't want to interact with him outside work?
I was recently promoted to team leader, and I have several colleagues that I'm close, and some I would consider friends. I have two colleagues that I would like to distance myself from for various ...
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How to deal with a poor work-life balance?
I'm a 4+ years experienced Software Engineer working in an Indian startup from last 7 months. I chose this startup because in my last organization:
the work was highly repetitive
I wasn't learning ...
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Performance review without me invited [closed]
I am working in a small tech company and have done majority of the work by myself. There are times that I worked over the weekend or till 11 pm to make sure the project would be completed on time.
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As a salaried employee, how do I tell my boss I won't do extra work without being paid more?
I have worked for a few companies now, and I have noticed a trend, where oftentimes my boss (or above) will want to assign me more work compared to other co-workers on our team or department.
This ...
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What is your experience about the productivity drop when the holiday season is coming? [closed]
When the holiday season is coming, for us it is the Chinese New Year next week, what is your experience about the productivity drop during this time frame?
Christmas is bad for workers’ productivity ...
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Getting the 9-5pm helpdesk role vs WFH and coding after for a software development job [closed]
I need some advice especially from people in the software development industry. I have been trying to become a developer for a long time and work in a call center in customer service. Because of COVID-...
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Is there a practical way for a software developer in the UK to join the reserves?
I am a mid-level software developer not currently a reservist.
This link shows a case study where the reservist serves
Tuesday evenings and weekends as and when required – usually one to two times a ...
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Is it OK to say in a job interview that I didn’t pursue an academic career because the salaries aren’t high enough?
I’m a graduating Ph.D. in a STEM field and I have decided not to continue in academia. The prospect of a life-long low wage doesn’t appeal to me after four years living on a meager stipend.
I had two ...
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Prospect of pursuing online degree in my off-shift hours with new job which has flexible work hours, how to approach to discuss this with management?
I am trying to pursue an online degree which may help me plan future prospects of my career but I have to do a tech job alongside to afford the course. The problem is the company work hours are ...
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Dealing with out of hours emails?
I am a eCommerce development manager for a successful business. We are a small team but work very much as such with everyone fully committed to the cause. When I first started I was told that I ...
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Great work life balance, boring work [closed]
For the past 7 years I've been part of a company that provides great work life balance & pretty good compensation.
When I joined there was a lot of interesting work to do & it was perfect.
Now,...
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How to tackle uncertainty about job requirements? [closed]
I am working as an Associate Business Analyst at a fintech firm and I am facing following issues:
Since this is a BA role it requires me to frequently check the product functionality through manual ...
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Would it look bad if I asked to be removed from a project?
So, I started a new job about 4 months ago. I could start an entire thread about the challenges that go with a complete lack of organization (which is part of the issue here), but I'll stick to the ...
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How to gain trust and set boundaries at work?
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I'm looking for a new job and I've recognized a pattern at some of my previous places that I'd like to correct. I usually don't gain enough trust to influence process in a positive and lasting ...
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Should I look for job change or continue? [closed]
It's been about 16 months in to the job but for 14 months I was working in Customer Success team, about two months ago I was moved into Delivery team.
I have a feeling that I am not able to meet the ...
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As a manager, should I support employees who work during the weekend?
An employee I manage has started working on weekends. They have a temporary position, and probably want to make a good impression to have a chance of getting hired permanently. Higher-ups have asked ...
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Can my employer enforce health and safety rules on me outside of work hours
I live in the UK and current COVID restrictions have relaxed so that you can meet people indoors at restaurants/bars etc. The Government rule is that its should be no more than 6 people at a table, or ...
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Declining the company's invitation to volunteer for a round-robin on-call roster that is understaffed
I work as a software developer where we have a voluntary on-call roster, where devs do on-call duties in a round-robin fashion. Recently, my manager told me that the roster is currently too small and ...
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How much do nap facilities improve worker productivity?
I was reading this economics paper on sleep efficiency, and came across:
short afternoon naps at the workplace improved an overall index of outcomes by 0.12 standard deviations
Are there any other ...
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What do I do if I can't seem to find interest for any job in my field (software development)? [closed]
I am having some major existential issues in regards to my career. I don't know if there is a true answer to this question, but I'd be grateful to receive any thoughts, experiences, or questions to ...
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How do you keep professional software work sustainable?
Summary question: how can I find/create a workplace where there's enough time to do a good job, learn what's needed, and count on regular hours?
Long question/explanation:
I've noticed most workplaces ...
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Why company policies don't guarantee work-life-balance?
The adoption of the trend called on-call is high among software companies where they expect employees to work beyond office-hours for things like urgent customer issues, pipeline failures, etc. This ...
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How to motivate myself to do my own projects similar to my day job? [closed]
I got a new mobile development role about 6 months ago. I love it, the company and the people are great. I work from home too.
Previously I’d been in web development roles and grew to hate it.
I used ...
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How can I use my home work desk on the weekend?
I’ve been working from home for about a year and have a dedicated (repurposed) work desk.
I would like to use the desk and my own laptop to work on personal projects.
However, I don’t feel able to. It’...
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How to refuse to work when on vacation while keeping relationships as best as possible?
I work for a company as an algorithm developer, recently promoted from software engineer.
I am very valued both by management and by peers, as is evident from management by constant positive feedback, ...
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How loud until you get a mark on your back?
Being relatively skilled and relatively loud in the office at promoting myself has got me in several rollercoasters of raising through the ranks then falling :) But one thing with being loud is ...
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I often get calls to help fix some problems at customer sites in non-working hours - normal?
My employer develops software for small business. The competition is fierce and survival is paramount for us. I often get call at 9 or 10 at night, sometimes at weekend from the customer support team, ...
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Tracking software monitoring our activity to the minute. Expected to work 8 hours straight. What can we do?
A few months ago, the management implemented a tracking software on our computers, such that it counts time only when a certain app we are working on is open and we are active on it. This means that ...
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Is "workaholic" culture a requirement, or optional?
I've received a job offer from an extremely large company with a reputation of having a "workaholic" culture. I asked some of the interviewers about it in loose terms (ie. what does a work ...
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How to be more strict about working hours in a free working hours environment?
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I work in an academic-like environment with free working hours. Everyone including my boss have a hectic schedule for work hours; and her plans for meeting me often clash with my plans for ...
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How to balance quality and speed at work?
I am a software developer.
The team I work on has over 25 people and we have multiple QA's (Quality Assurance), and Code Reviewers.
I mean this in the most humble way - I try my very best to write the ...
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How to ensure a company respects its employees before accepting an offer?
I'm working on some litmus tests for companies during the interview process, and trying to test if the company/team respects its employees before accepting an offer.
For completeness, what I mean by &...
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After ten years of ad-hoc coding, what steps can I take to formally learn computer programming?
I have a slightly different issue I am running up against than it seems most people on this site usually address.
Initially, right after graduating with a Master's in Economics (2010), I joined a ...
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Is it ethical to be sleep deprived while working as a software developer (in a non-safety-critical environment)? [closed]
Hypothetically: assume that someone is working as a software developer (on projects outside fields like medicine where software correctness is very important).
Is it ethical to be sleep deprived when ...
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How to stop feeling overwhelmed when asked to deliver a project?
I am senior software engineer, and have done pretty much as 10 projects till date. But last year I was given a task to lead a team which had a continous scope creeps, and I had to deal with lots of ...
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Unproductive, overwhelmed, work from home single parent, children off school during lock-down, steps to turn this around
The context and background
Since the pandemic started in the UK, I've been work from home. On top of that I'm a single parent and my teens are off school because the schools have shut.
At the start ...
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Why are shorter hours such a problem for companies?
Why are companies in general opposed to employees working shorter hours?
Shorter hours means less expenses for salaries. And while a lot of the fixed costs for office space and stay the same, this ...
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Canceling my two week notice to go to a remote job
I gave my 2 week notice at my current employer who has been very good to me over the past several years. The work has gotten a little bit stale and boring but overall I like seeing people and going ...
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Asking About Work/Life Balance and On-Call In an Interview [duplicate]
Work/Life Balance and On-Call requirements are two things that I want to know about before accepting a job offer. I'm afraid that when asking about these in an interview that it's perceived that I don'...
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Employer changes working hours from flexible schedule to early mornings?
My friend has a 100% commission job. They accepted the offer a few weeks ago because they were thrilled to find a job which explicitly had extremely flexible hours. The employer even told them that ...
