Why choosing chaos over order brings work-life balance
As Australia introduces new rights for employees to disconnect, BMF’s executive planning director, Anna Bollinger, explores why striving for perfect balance can be more draining than liberating, and how leaning into disorder has helped her thrive.
Work-life balance—it’s sold to us as the ultimate key to happiness.
The goal is to become some sort of suburban Goldilocks, achieving a sense of evenness to our days. A bit of this, a little of that, nothing too much, and ideally, a nice nap to top it off.
But while Australia has just introduced a new law giving employees the “right to disconnect”, why does attaining balance still feel so draining and out of reach?
There was a time I pretended that flipping it in the positive and labelling it life-work balance would more effortlessly keep my priorities in check.
