Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.

CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I mean, she makes enough money to say that. Most everyone under her, not so much. The self-centeredness of these CEOs is staggering.

    “I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

    “You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Here’s the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she’s not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week’s groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn’t get most of her groceries from.

        She just doesn’t realize it, because that’s not a life she’s experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it’s as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.

      • ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you’re not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they’ll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you’ll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you’re a prisoner, tough luck.