Friday, February 18, 2011

Worker's playtime

You're 21, it's your first job. You should be getting in at 7am, working until 10pm, before getting smashed with the boss in a hotel bar and signing confidentiality agreements binding you to company secrets until you die. Surely at this age your priorities should be earning enough to buy the right pair of Jimmy Choos to indent your colleagues' backs all the way to the top. When you're 40 and you have a brood of young children to support, then and only then should you start thinking about whether you are actually spending Too Much Time At Work.
Increasingly, however, new graduates are seeking that all-elusive work-life balance in their first and second jobs. A survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters published last year found that more than 92% of graduate recruiters believe they should address work-life balance in order to engage with today's graduates.

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