Maybe not, says this work-life specialist
Cali Williams Yost is president of Work+Life Fit, Inc., and author of Work+Life: Finding the Fit That's Right for You. Yost, who hosts a blog atworklifefit.com, founded Work+Life Fit, a Madison, N.J.-based company dedicated to helping professionals manage the way life fits in their work schedule. She is a recent recipient of the Work-Life Rising Star Award from the Alliance for Work-Life Progress. Yost spoke with Consulting about what, if anything, can be done about the profession's rigorous travel schedule and its impact on consultants.
Why work/life "fit" instead of "balance"?It's not about balance. We need to get rid of that word. It causes way more problems than it solves. There are many transitions in life—getting married, parenthood, elder care, retirement—and people need to adjust their work-life fit in response to that. For many people, balance represents this magical 50/50 split between work and their personal lives. Balance becomes the deficit module; it's always the thing you don't have. Work-life fit, on the other hand, is about your realities at a particular time in your work and personal life and creating that fit.
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