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How do you want your work-life balance to look like in the future?

Professor Julia Richardson explains the importance of work-life balance, how it can impact your productivity, career development and wellbeing, and the strategies you can explore to achieve this sometime elusive concept.

• Whether work-life balance is only a dream or could be a reality (3.17)
• What hard questions you need to ask yourself to achieve work-life balance (10.17)
• Two different strategies: segmentation and integration (19.20)
• Why managers need to be more concerned about their employees’ work-life balance (25.20)
• Why there’s nothing wrong with ‘wasting’ time (31.43)

Learn more

• An Intelligent Career: Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life
• Curtin University: Three things to know when planning your next career move
• healthdirect: Work-life balance

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