Twitter Chat: How do we achieve the ideal work-life balance?

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In June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a survey on work-life balance in advanced nations. The results? The United States ranked 29th out of the 36 countries polled.

Despite U.S. residents saying that work-life balance was very important to them (it ranked fourth out of eleven priorities) they were not able to prioritize it. While the U.S. ranks very high in on scales measuring income and wealth they spent an average of only 14 hours a day on themselves, and that was including sleep.

So why are Americans so bad at establishing a work-life balance? Is this a recent development, a product of social media and the “lean in” culture? Can we establish a better work-life balance in America? Should we?

To address these questions and more, join PBS NewsHour for a Twitter chat at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. We will be joined by Brigid Schulte (@BrigidSchulte), who covers social issues for the Washington Post, as well as Liana Sayer (@LCHSayer) and John Robinson of the University of Maryland, who both study how people use their time. Additionally, many of the PBS NewsHour staff who participated in the great work-life balance experiment will participate.

We will use the hashtag #NewsHourChats.

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