Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 Europe CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through weekends | Fortune
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If you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job, says Bupa’s CEO. And some of the world’s most powerful people agree.
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    “I enjoy thinking about business things on the weekends,” the 61-year-old admitted. “I do emails, and I read my papers and all of that. Do I feel that that is a big pressure? No … I enjoy doing that. So I don’t feel I need to think about how I balance my life.”

    His advice for anyone who lives for the weekend? “I think the advice here is to take some time to think about what you like doing,” he added. “Don’t do a job that you don’t like, so then you need balance.”

    Utterly severed from the reality of the working class.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Just get a job you like… sure, no problem. What if even getting a job of any kind is hard. Billionaires probably never thought of that.

      • pleb_maximus@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I do have a job I like. But I still need balance. Because my job isn’t reading some mails and reading the fucking papers.
        But nothing new from those type of people and it shows yet again why you shouldn’t trust their proclamations of how much they “work”.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        0·
        10 days ago

        I like my job because it allows for work life balance (mostly because of a long respected union culture).

        • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Billionaires say we don’t need balance or unions, but those are the things that actually improve the quality of my life. So, the billionaires are effectively saying I shouldn’t enjoy my life.

    • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Then he goes on month long vacations leaving the actual people who work to continue working for far worse pay than he claims.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I imagine very few of us work a job we actually like doing more than spending time with family and friends. That seems unhealthy by definition, somehow.

      • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Right. I actually like my job and I appreciate that is a rare occurrence these days. But I also like my private life. If I had a choice I still would spend more time on what I do in my private life than in my job, since right now the balance is still heavily on the job side (if we exclude sleeping since well, I don’t get the choice to do that at my job).

    • Triumph@fedia.io
      1·
      9 days ago

      This, from a guy who has the freedom to pick and choose how he supports whatever lifestlye he wants.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I do actually like my job, but I sure as shit don’t give it a single thought when I’m not at work.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        I fucking love my job.

        But every minute after 4 pm is overtime. And I won’t let myself even think about that shit not on the clock.

        I know I have some issue with nutanix I gotta troubleshoot today but I won’t go deeper than that til I’ve sat down at my desk.

        I bring my laptop with me when I leave the house because if something clicks, I wanna get it done and get paid.