What A Wonderful World This Would Be
My company recently conducted a poll that found that work-life balance seems to be improving for people who began working from home in the spring. Stress about work has likely been replaced by stress about COVID-19, election year politics and return-to-school challenges. But it’s a trend in the right direction and one that most people would want to continue post-pandemic.
There’s no question we’re going to get through this. But if we have another six months or more of work-from-home, I say it’s going to be a lot more tolerable (and maybe even enjoyable) if there was even more balance in our situations. For instance:
We need less auto insurance. We need more tuition insurance.
We need fewer instant messages. We need more instant massages.
We need less debates on cable news. We need more debates around the dinner table.
We need more child care ideas. We need fewer hair care ideas.
We don’t need our toilet kits. We still need more toilet paper.
We don’t need carpools. We could use more swimming pools.
We need to make avocados ripen faster. We need to make bananas ripen slower.
We need more comfortable face masks. We need a lot less face masque.
We need fewer sociopaths. We need more walking and biking paths.
We need more FaceTime sessions with our parents. We need shorter FaceTime sessions with our parents.
We need fewer dresser drawers. We need more recycling bins.
We need less screen time. We need more sunscreen.
We need fewer meals involving boneless chicken breast. We need more flavors of dry dog food (request from another family member).
We need fewer streaming services. We need more cleaning services.
We need more reliable internet service. We need more reliable internet service.
To borrow Sam Cooke’s lyric, what a wonderful world this would be! Do you have other balances that you’d like to achieve, more or less? Please share, I will crowd-source and re-publish this article with your good ideas.
Tim Guen is President of CareerMap and blogs frequently about the challenges of building a career during the pandemic.