Weisure & the Struggle to Find Work-Life Balance

New York University sociologist and professor, Daniel Conley, coined the term, "weisure," to describe the blurring of boundaries between work and leisure time. He noted that the Internet had brought a greater challenge to workers who wanted to find a healthy work-life balance. With the Internet, work-related e-mail messages and texts are available 24/7, and work projects can be done on laptops at home or even on vacation. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many to telework. In fact, a recent survey indicated that 50% of companies reported that 80% of their employees were teleworking and that many of those employees planned to continue teleworking long-term (Kniffen et al., 2021).

Many of you probably struggle to find a school-work-life balance, juggling a job, college, and family, as well as downtime when you can get it. Many find it harder to do so when their laptop and schoolwork, job projects or messages, and cell phones make the work present at all times. For those who telework, they sometimes find it difficult to get away from their work and describe feeling like they are "living at work" instead of working from home.

1. Readthis articleabout achieving work-family balance (Hirschi, Shockley, & Zacher, 2019).
2. Compose a main postthat addresses the following:

• Discuss the challenges you facewhen trying to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
• Identify at least three strategiesyou can use to help you in that effort.
• Support your ideaswith academic, peer-reviewed sources, such as your readings for the week and/or the sources mentioned in these instructions for this assignment.