No.2567

Young Workers Value Work-Life Balance. They’re Just Bad at It.

By Callum Borchers

Young professionals pledge admiration for peers who carve out personal time, then fail to do the same for themselves…

The youngest people in the office say the peers they most admire carve out personal time and live life on their own terms. Fancy titles and fat salaries are far less impressive, according to Deloitte’s annual survey of millennials and Gen Zers.

Yet those young professionals are roughly twice as likely to say their jobs are important to their own sense of identity as they are to define themselves by hobbies, volunteering or exercise. They applaud friends and co-workers who prioritize self-care or take that backpacking sabbatical to Europe. Then they answer another weekend email while their Peloton gathers dust.…

https://www.wsj.com/articles/work-life-balance-is-their-second-priority-work-is-their-first-b069aeee