Humans spend, on average, 90,000 hours working throughout their lives, or about 10 years of continuous work and 15% of their total life span.  In case of India, it might be more.  What do u think, ...

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Humans spend, on average, 90,000 hours working throughout their lives, or about 10 years of continuous work and 15% of their total life span.

In case of India, it might be more.

What do u think, wlb is overrated?

How is ur wlb...

1. Fked up
2. Chill
3. No work 
4. Looking for resignation and switch

As founder of one of the largest employers in the world, Amazon.com Inc. Founder Jeff Bezos has several thoughts on running a business, workers and work-life balance. Amazon, which has more than 1.5 million employees worldwide, has also been controversial over the years, with some employees complaining about not receiving bathroom breaks and being forced to use bottles while others report unsustainable wages for grueling work. But that would seem to come with the territory as the world's second-

Jeff Bezos Says, 'People Have Very High Standards' For Their Work-Life Balance — If You 'Enjoy Half of It, That's a Home-Run'

Work Life balance

Senior Consultant

Work Life balance- Grapevine

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Work-life balance, as I thought it to be in the start of my career is basically for me to work for a maximum possible part of my working hours and never any more than that. Life had a higher priority than work so I used to always involve is smart work and kind of planned "under estimate, over deliver". Rest of the "life" contributed to study and enjoy freedom alternatively.
I slowly started to feel, that's not the way. Currently, with a ~4 yoe, I partially think the "Narayan Murthy"s around us aren't wrong. WLB is subjective, at the very start of your career you should hardly look out for it (doesn't mean to work your as* off for the employee with peanut salary, no) but don't expect to work for 8 hrs a day and chillax the rest. To me, it comes in phases and I'm okay with it. There could be a month or few when you might work 70+ hours a week, and then there could be a month where there's hardly any work.
Just keep the smartwork going, but don't time yourself at the early stages. Learn and earn as much as you can, so someday you can gift your grandchild a few million ₹ as well.
Its completely my perspective, probably because I've been blessed with the my kind of work as a SDE.
Let me know, what's your take?

What is WLB to you?

Senior Software Engineer

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How do you define work life balance boundaries at work? Everyone in my team works 10-12 hrs daily, it’s business as usual for them. I joined recently and it’s very problematic for me, I literally get no time to do anything else. 
I fear, that if I highlight this I’ll be singled out. 
Some people even feel very proud in doing so which I don’t understand. Don’t they want to go back home to their family and spend time with them?
Please provide guidance on how to set these boundaries and am I thinking right?

WLB boundaries at work.

Product Manager

Seen many reviews about companies having a good or bad WLB. As a fresher, I would love to know what experienced people consider a good work life balance and how important it is while judging a company? Any other factors to consider?

What is a good work life balance

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I see a lot of posts about WLB, I want to know what do you consider as a decent WLB. I will go first.

1. Leave early if the work for that day is done
2. No pings and calls post work hours, there are always exceptions and thats okay, should not become a norm
3. Respecting when someone is in vacation and not disturbing them.
4. Not rejecting leaves 

I will add more in comments If more comes to my mind.

Work Life Balance

Rule of thumb  
 If you get work thoughts outside 9-6 or weekends, it's not WLB.

Software Test - QA

Computer Operator

With my small experiences in the past, I haven't seen a good Startup with WLB for SDEs (0-3)yoe.

I want to know whether you work in a startup where there's WLB.

I understand that more work means more learning but I do not agree with this every time. There are way more SDEs working in very very small startups who have humongous learning with a pinch of money they are being paid.


For me WLB means enough time to relax and spend time with my loved ones and also less mental stress.

I have observed that the Leads/Managers will give any features no matter how complex they are, need to be built with 0 to no help specially for SDE-1 people.

And later they are blamed and scolded or they're put in PIP and ultimately thrown out.

What is your experience?

Are there any startups where WLB exists or it's just all about money and doesn't matter even if the employee is no more?

Software Developer

Works never seems to end and there are hardly any boundaries left. Unless you are in management, it’s super difficult to define and maintain boundaries. How have we come to this ? Isn’t technology supposed to make us all time-rich ?

Are there any real 9 to 5 jobs left ?

Management Consultant

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Hi, 
I am struggling to balance between work and personal life.I am losing people from my life because of too much time I have to give to work. I am not able to give time to my health or my parents.Tried multiple ways but not able to get out of this loop. Sometimes I skip meals too. I make to do list, I plan everything but nothing goes as per plan . A lot of adhoc urgent things come everyday, alot of people , a lot of pings sometimes I don't even get time to think just hoping from 1 meeting to another.I thought of changing my team but not even getting time to prepare.please help me to get out of this loop.

Struggling in WLB

Consultant

I work as Desk Quant Analyst at an HFT. Exp - ~1 year. Task mostly involves some coding stuff in C++ and sometimes python. Heard a notion that such resume doesn't get picked by PBC hiring managers.How much of it is true?

Switching from HFT DQA role to PBC SDE

I see people discussing salaries ranging from 40lpa+ so casually here. Need to know if grapevine has junta who are happy earning average pay ~20lpa & don't really get FOMO.

I mean, do we have to constantly keep thinking about what others are earning & not focus on bigger picture called LIFE?

Work life balance

Can anybody name some Indian companies with good work life balance ? Or is it a myth ? And no , I’m not looking at government jobs , just IT companies or companies with IT wings :)

Indian companies - WLB

Program Manager

Recently the CHRO of my company called me into a discussion on improving  WORK LIFE BALANCE.  Wow. I just cannot understand. Look at this. 
1. Most companies work 5 days a week. (Except retail operations). So you get 52 weeks x 2. 104 days. 
2. 30 days annual leav
3. 9 days statutory holidays. 
4. Operational holidays. 3. 
145 days of 365 days corporate people don’t come to office. And in a hybrid format even more. 
It is these corporate vultures who want work life Balance. How can u balance your life if u r unable to do it in 145 days. 
So Narayana murthy is right - work hard like 80% of india. Who have almost no weekly off. Just saying.

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Founder

Just wanted to move away from the usual negative feedback’s and reviews that people post here to try and see if there’s any good as well.

Work Life balance

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