“Is ‘Balance’ Bunk?” that was the jist of a panel discussion I was invited to participate on at the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference which was run by the American Psychological Association.
Might be a good time to give it a shot. Pamela Slim’s, Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, is a great place to start. She’s profiled in this weeks WorkLife Nation Webisode with Judy Martin.
In Careerbuilders latest survey, it wasn’t the fact that nearly 1 in 5 workers were looking to switch careers that sparked my interest even as we slowly recover from the job sector doldrums, but the reasons why.
Workplace stress has a way of escalating during the holidays. Case in point, over the Thanksgiving holiday, a normally exuberant co-worker seemed uncharacteristically disengaged from the typical office banter, and seemed on edge.
