Questions tagged [work-life-balance]

Issues about balancing the demands of both work and non-work activities.

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How to encourage a friend to leave a toxic job?

One of my close friends is currently working for a company which has a toxic work environment, a place where no one should have to work. He has been at this company for just over 7 years, he is a ...
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My boss is not qualified to judge the quality of my work. [closed]

I am a senior engineer working in IP management for a large telecom company. I've been in my current position for five years. My last promotion to the senior title was 4 years ago in 2013. I have ...
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is there legitimate reason employer afraid of employees work from home? [closed]

Is there a legitimate reason for an employer to ban employees work from home if engineers able to commit code and work on repos remotely? Specifically for web developers and engineering related ...
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Being interviewed for an intern job that I am not very motivated to get

I am an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering, and I have currently completed about 60% of my course. In order to graduate, an internship is mandatory. I am not in a hurry to find an ...
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My manager is asking me to take work laptop at home

My manager is asking me to take work laptop home because he says "I might need it anytime". Now I signed up for typical 8 hours 5 days a week developer job and I like to keep work things at workplace ...
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Having lunch at home

I live near my employer's office. All I need to do to reach home is walk for five minutes. To go straight to the point, I prefer having lunch at home. It costs me way less money than going to ...
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How do I convince my employer to take my mention of resignation seriously?

I've had huge work life balance issues with my boss over the past year or so, as noted in previous posts. For background, it's a small company and I'm the only employee. Finally, after giving a few ...
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Working From home for a small company vs In office for a Medium sized company [closed]

I was looking for some insight with other that may have had to make a decision like mine. I currently have an opportunity in front of me that will allow me to work from home for a small to medium ...
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Is it bad for my career to want to do my work and go home? [closed]

I work in the tech industry. When I am at work, I am friendly and talk to colleagues. I am a team player and prefer to work in groups. I like working hard and diligently at whatever I do. However, ...
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Told I'm not being enthusiastic enough at work

So I've been at my current job for approximately 4 months now. I am really enjoying it so far and it really is a great place to work. However, after a recent discussion with an employer in regards to ...
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Am I killing my future in software developing with my current job? [closed]

I'm a new, almost B.E graduate (Working on my thesis-work) and I'm working full time at the IT-department at my work. When I first started they say in the interview that I would be developing program ...
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Need advise on work overload situation [duplicate]

I am severely overloaded at work and my direct manager does not seem to care. I have to sit in weekly status meeting with stakeholders and (I feel as though) it get portrayed as I am not competent in ...
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Extended opensource software as a side-task, how to ask my boss about to contributing it back to the community?

Note, it is not a software licensing question, it is a "how to ask this from my boss" question. The IP part is here irrelevant. In my current project, I have a relative high freedom, actually the ...
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Strategies as a highly productive employee without any work? [closed]

It isn't unusual for some to finish their work well and early. That poses a conundrum - should they take the remaining estimated time for themselves or should they take on more work lined up, ...
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Leaving earlier than other co-workers; will this make me look bad?

I am auditing a course at a local university. It takes place one day a week and begins at 4:00. I am a contract worker and am only allowed to work 8 hours. The earliest I can come in is 7:00 am, ...
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How do I talk to my manager about my anxiety issues without sounding like a liability?

Lately, I have been having anxiety issues over some personal things going on my life. With immigration being most important of all since I am living in Canada on a work visa. And due to anxiety, I ...
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How to approach discussion about using personal mobile devices at work? [closed]

November 2016 - Facebook and iPhone has been around for more than a decade - and yes - I'm using social media, networking, everything. Many people in the office use their personal mobile devices too. ...
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Work day making it impossible to vote

Today, November 8th, is election day in the United States. In my state, the polls close at 8pm this evening. In my company, approximately once every two months, we have a deployment day, which is ...
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How can I keep my private and work coding-life separate?

So, as a Coder, I'll take my knowledge from my job and apply it to my hobby, and take experience from my hobby and apply it to my job. On occasion, this can lead to very similar code appearing in ...
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In a company crossing multiple timezones, is it rude to send a co-worker a work email in the middle of the night?

I work in a company that spans multiple timezones, and I work with people who are in wildly different timezones from me. For example, some of my coworkers are in the USA and work local hours, others ...
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Employee rights regarding a change of working arrangement not written in to my contract [closed]

I work of a company in the UK and have done for almost 7 years. I work in IT supporting a number of infrastructure related projects across the EMEA region. During this time I have always been ...
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hired out of college, got engaged, looking for new job after 3 months; How do I look reliable?

I was recruited to a software engineering company right out of college (I graduated in May). I've worked here for about 3 months, then I got engaged to my bf who lives back in my college town. We were ...
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What to do when your company consider estimates are part of your KPI? [closed]

I’m a software developer working for a finance firm of about 50 employees, 15 of which developers. I joined the company less than one year ago on a contract. I’ve recently been praised for my ...
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Workload substantially increased, very unhappy [closed]

I'm currently in a situation where our company (which is fairly small) went out and bought another struggling company. I am a software developer (the only one at my company after another was let go) ...
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Can IT Support be a good career? [closed]

Most IT Professionals I believe start off in an IT Support role. I was thinking that maybe doing Help Desk or Desktop Support can be a good career instead of like System Admin or Network Admin So ...
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Does rejecting onsite visit affect's my impression?

So here is the thing.I have been working with my current firm since December 2015. Soon after that, I got married. My managers tried convincing several times for an onsite visit, but I always declined ...
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Is it professional to tell my boss that major illness in my family was the reason for my lack of productivity? [duplicate]

I work in a telecommute position so most of my correspondence with my boss is over email/Skype. Today, I got a phone call that my mom's cancer has spread to the rest of her body. I knew she had cancer,...
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Workload increase after resignation

I have been working for a small software development company (team of 5 developers) for 11 months now, but I decided to hand in my notice 2 weeks ago due to personal reasons. Since then my workload ...
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How to deal with team member leaving too early and not finishing work [duplicate]

I have noticed that a colleague in my team is consistently leaving way before the 8 hours of the day. I am not sure how come this has not been noticed by our team manager. Personally this is ...
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Are there any areas in the IT field that have great Work-Life Balance? [closed]

Most people tell me the Information Technology industry is a 24/7 hour industry. It kinda of screams bad work life balance at first. So it made me ask what kind of areas or jobs in IT generally have ...
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How can i ask my administrator for a lunch break reduction?

I am a web developer for 1 year in a company, and i am undergoing a very complex work/life balance situation. To keep in short terms: i accepted this work, moving from my home town to a bigger city, ...
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Temp-to-Perm Question [closed]

Ok.. so let's start with the fact that the staffing agency I work for is an unusual one. They told me when in a temp-to-perm position, like I am in now, that they keep you as a temporary employee ...
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How should i handle my co-worker? [closed]

I work in the medical field and i need some advice. Does a coworker have the right to tell you which patient to room? Tell you to hurry up? Even though the doctor isn't behind with his schedule? ...
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Enforcing your own work hours when joining a new team [closed]

I work at a large company in London as a software developer. The company doesn't really have work hour expectations than the usual 9-5 and most developers tend to vary how they work. Unfortunately ...
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online education and applying for new job [closed]

Right now I have two completed diplomas in my field: a 2 year diploma, and a 3 years advanced diploma. I'm also taking online courses to complete a Bachelor of Computer Science. It will take another ...
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How to deal with different daily working hours in a software company?

For employees life/work convenience in our company, we implemented something we call "Non-uniform Daily Working Times Policy". It means that we have a default daily working hours starting from 9AM to ...
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How to get my boss to implement a more consistent workflow

I work at a company in software development and I am having a big problem with workflow. There have been a lot of issues lately with making sure the product is bug free. I always feel rushed and like ...
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Being forced to work off hours [closed]

My employer is forcing me to work off hours, to do inventory of the store, which I have never done. I am only a cashier not a stock person. This will be done at night after store hours, and I would ...
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Long hours in a startup - what to do? [closed]

I have been working in a tech start up for 7 months as a PM and something is starting to bug me. The rest of the team can come into work at 9am, I have to be in at work by 8-8:30 latest. ...
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What do I do if a co-worker is leaving early frequently while the boss is out?

We are a team of 10 people, and one of them is leaving early. They are supposed to work 8:00 hours like everyone else but they are working about 7:30. Our manager is out of office till next month. ...
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How to work the least possible amount? (programming next to Masters)

I am starting a masters next year and will need to support myself. I would like to find a way to make enough money to get by, but want to primarily focus on my studies. How do I explain this when ...
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Is it possible to work more than full-time for an employer?

I have a full-time job for my current employer and have been working here for 2 years. The problem is that I'm working a lot of hours, since I enjoy my profession a lot (I'm in software engineering/...
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How do I quit a job working for a friend without damaging the friendship? [closed]

I started working at a software company as soon as I finished school as a junior software developer but was laid off three months later due to funding problems. A month later, a friend who I have ...
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Do long commutes count against personal or work hours? [closed]

My employer (science) has several sites. One is in Cambridge MA, where some colleagues tell me their one-way commute is in excess of an hour. I've even heard that a few colleagues commute up to 2 hrs ...
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Why is it expected for programmers to work long hours? [closed]

I am a junior developer so I haven't had much experience in the field, but I've two different jobs and it seems like it's normal or almost expected for developers to work more than the typical 40 ...
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When should I ask for different work hours during the hiring process?

I am a student and I am looking for my first programming job (where I live -not USA- people work and study at the same time). In general people work from 9 a.m to 6 p.m (total: 9 hours, this includes ...
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How could I ask my future employer if I can work remotely?

I accepted a job back in October as a software developer for a company I've interned for twice. I have a great relationship with the company, and they were eager to hire me on after the summer's work. ...
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Career Advice: Should I leave my current team or wait for promotion? [closed]

I have been working for this company for about 11 months now. Everything is going well, however feel undervalued with regards to my salary. About 4 months ago I was passed up for a position with a ...
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What's the relationship between working long hours and productivity for passionate people? [closed]

I've read that working excessively long hours hurts productivity. However, I also know that a large majority of people do not truly love their job. So, if these studies sample randomly from the ...
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Peer achieving more, by putting in more than regular working hours for not so urgent tasks

I have a great team member who is very reliable and dependable and a great asset to the team. However, of late, I have realized that this person is working for almost 14 hours a day. There is ...
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