work-life balance

English

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Noun

work-life balance (countable and uncountable, plural work-life balances)

1. The relative importance of, or time taken by, work and personal life to a particular individual.

Derived terms

• study-life balance
• study-leisure balance

Translations

working time

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作與生活平衡 / 工作与生活平衡 (gōngzuò yǔ shēnghuó pínghéng), 勞逸平衡 / 劳逸平衡

• Finnish: työ- ja yksityiselämän tasapaino
• German: Work-Life-Balance (de) f
• Italian: conciliazione vita-lavoro f
• Polish: godzenie życia zawodowego i prywatnego n

References

• “work-life balance”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.