Whats the difference between work-family and work-life?
Work-life is a broader, more holistic term that includes your ability to balance or integrate work into your overall life, including your responsibilities to yourself, your community, and your many priorities, which may or may not have to do with family. Work-family balance more specifically references the management of your family responsibilities towards children, aging parents, a disabled family member, or a partner/spouse. Not everybody has family responsibilities, so work-family balance can be less relevant to them. You can have work-family balance—where the kids are taken care of, parents are taken care of, and everything’s under control – but you have nothing left for yourself, nothing left for your community, nothing left for your own personal growth and development, rest and relaxation. So it is possible to have work-family balance and still need to achieve work-life balance.
