
Generally, employers have an innate sense to increase expected productivity levels. This increases the expected workload which eventually leads to longer hours and time away from home. Not only does this promote the inability to effectively manage one’s personal and professional work-life balance, but your expectations of co-workers and family can increase exponentially.

According to the website, http://www.workplaceissues.com/arburnout.htm, “Studies have shown that more heart attacks occur on Monday morning than any other time of the week. The common factor here is that people are going back to work after a weekend off. What a shocking realization, that people are not dying to go to work but are dying because they are going to work.”
Personally, I enjoy the challenge of working a career that keeps me on my toes; however, I have taken a stance that there must be a clear work-life balance. All too often I have seen fellow co-workers, friends, and even family members lose focus of this and have fallen into burnout type of situations. Remember, at the end of the day, you must enjoy the fruits of your labor.