精品阅读：工作生活失衡不能怪老板_跨考网

　　精品阅读：工作生活失衡不能怪老板

　　Restore Work-Life Sanity

　　工作生活失衡不能怪老板

Working all hours? No time for family or hobbies? Stop blaming your employer and take responsibility for your own role in managing your work and life commitments, say a growing number of workplace and management experts -- most prominently Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in her new book Lean In.

　　你是不是每天从早忙到晚?你是不是没有时间照顾家庭，享受兴趣爱好?越来越多的职场和管理专家表示，这可不能怪东家，你得自己负责管好你的工作与生活的各项事务。这些声音中，最引人关注的是Facebook首席运营官谢丽尔•桑德伯格在她的新书《互依》(Lean In)中的最新表述。

　　After all, with technology and a global economy blurring the lines between the job and home, the corporation is no longer in a position to tell you when to stop working, which tasks to prioritize, or how to set personal boundaries, says Cali Williams Yost, flexible work consultant and author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day.

　　毕竟，科技和经济的全球化使得工作与家庭的界线变得越来越模糊，公司也不再承担这样的一个职责：告诉员工何时停下工作，优先处理哪些事情，以及如何设定个人空间界线等，《微调：一天一天实现梦想》(Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day)一书的作者、灵活工作咨询师凯利•威廉姆斯•尤斯特表示。

　　"We all have a completely different set of circumstances and goals and priorities, " Yost says. "We're reaching at a natural point where companies can't do much more than what they're doing: offering the flexibility and rolling it out well. Now we need to use it."

　　“我们都有完全不同的状况、目标和优先事项，”尤斯特说。 “我们正在接近一个自然的临界点，超过这个临界点之后，公司除了提供工作的灵活性，妥善执行灵活性之外，再也无能为力。如今，我们需要利用灵活性。”

　　To be sure, not every employer has developed a functional approach to flexible work. And plenty of workers are still struggling with out-of-date bosses who categorically oppose workplace flexibility or simply undermine it, despite the documented benefits such as higher productivity, lower turnover, and greater job satisfaction. (Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer's recent ban on telecommuting may come to mind.)

　　当然，并不是每家公司都已培育出有效的灵活工作方式。而且，很多员工还在和守旧的老板进行斗争。尽管灵活安排工作环境好处显而易见，比如，它可以提高生产率、降低人员流失和提高工作满意度等，但这些老板依然明确反对，甚至从中作梗。【这时，你或许会想起最近雅虎(Yahoo)CEO玛丽莎•梅耶尔禁止远程办公的禁令。】

　　In that case, you have two choices: work within your current restrictions or change jobs. Don't be like the 75% of people who, according to Yost's research, believe that their boss or employer must provide work-life flexibility in order for it to be possible, citing increased workloads and lack of time as obstacles.

　　在这种情况下，你有两种选择：要么遵从新的规则，要么换工作。不要像尤斯特调查的那75%的人一样，他们认为，老板或雇主必须提供工作与生活之间的灵活性，而且他们还将工作压力大和缺乏时间视为障碍。