A few more work/life balance articles

Some Respect, Please, for the Afternoon Nap - Sleep as strategy. As secret weapon. As business plan. Call it what you must. And then get some rest.

How to Work More Hours and Still Go Home Early (with an interesting observation from some managers: “Often when employees work late all the time, managers ask, ‘Why aren’t they able to get their job done?’ ”)

A Manager's Guide to Growing Happy Employees

Don’t be the Hardest Worker, In Your Job or In Your Job Hunt (sounds blasphemous this is a good point: The hardest workers have actually lost the self-confidence to stop working. They are either terrified of making a mistake or a misstep, or they are terrified of the world that lies beyond their work – for example crumbling personal relationships.)

70-Hour Work Weeks? Must Be an "Extreme Worker" Money quote from the above article:
"Half of our extreme workers have one foot out the door," says Hewlett. "The flight risk (for the younger generation) is high. They are twice as likely to quit as are 45-year-olds." She notes also that men and women in extreme jobs see bad things happening to their children, such as the kids eating too much junk food. The men threaten to quit but don't. Women threaten to quit and do. Men don't blame themselves for the extremists' problems. Women see it and feel it's all their fault. Women feel there is a direct line between the kids' underachieving in school and the oppressive hours that Mother puts in on the job. "If we want to hang on to our key female talent," says Hewlett, "we've got to figure out a way of designing high-impact jobs that demand, say, 45 hours a week and not 70 hours a week." So far, corporations have not been able to do that."