As part of World Mental Health day, Julie Rice, Partner at WeWork, explores how tapping into your community can improve workplace wellness
So much importance is given to achieving the work/life balance. I don’t think it can always be easily prescribed, though: I know people who achieve it with a 5am start and scheduled hours right up until midnight. If, like me, yours isn’t as structured as that, though (maybe you need an average person’s amount of sleep, for one), then you’ll know if you’re achieving it with a general sense of wellbeing. Walking into the office on a Monday feeling ready for the week ahead.
What’s more evident is when you’re not getting the right work/life balance, though. When everything feels like it’s getting a bit much. Even if you know what steps you should be taking – getting more sleep, exercising, making extra time to get ahead with emails – sometimes it feels easier to drink your way through ten coffees in the hope you’ll find the strength to login to your computer (that bad, huh?). So what’s the fix?...