Managing work-life creep
5 min readJun 11, 2023
Why are we still talking about work and life balance?
Fun fact. The notion of ‘work life balance’ was first proposed by a renegade called Robert Owen. Can you guess when?
1817.
Owen’s famous phrase was “8 hours labour, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest” neatly dividing the day into work time, play time and rest time.