The concept of work life balance is a rather modern thing. However, if you think about it deeper, older gen workers are having more work life balance than the current gen workers.

While older gen workers have much less flexibility cause they work 9-6 with no option to deviate, they mostly only work within the hours stated in the contract if not just a hour or two more OT.

The current gen workers, whilst having more freedom on the hours, they work a lot more hours because of the WFH arrangement. A lot of them who have a sense of responsibility often had to work during the weekends or even their holiday because of the new mobility setup.

With so many graduates and so many wanting to do white collar jobs, those who don't give a piss often ended up being replaced.

Gone are the days where after office hour, annual leave and weekends means personal time.

yes, no laptop no need bring home work
each role focus 1 function only, nowadays corporate greed 1 job semua shit also have to do

Hallo wfh?

No more mco oledi u dunno ah

no more WFH ady la

rindu zaman MCO

even without WFH, with AI and internet connectivity, ppl are expected to reply asap and there are higher expectation compared to the olden days.

Next year company going to implement full wfh dunno to view it as good thing or the other way round lol

Older gen of course have work life balance now when they are higher up the ladder.
Back then they need to work hard too to climb
Then again back then the older gen parents aren't middle class parents that eat out weekly, so, there wasn't a work life balance to compare to. Everyone worked hard back then.

we have whatsapp group now
work can come 24x7

Different kinda balance...
Older gen work pia until they retire young then have life go travel and all
New gen YOLO so work and travel all together, but have to work longer before can afford retire

move to small town and live. got balance + boredom

New gen complaint lebih

Kerja tak boleh lebih

Gaji mesti lebih

Management tak boleh sound lebih

Intention horse lebih

Treasure job security more than anything b4 u lose it, cos your life will be upside down, definitely not balance.

no such thing as retire young, nowadays 70s+ still working...cannot realized
and thn realized not only no money, your body has no strength to travel anymore + time is running out

and no need baby boomers
the newer gen like millenials and gen-z has found that out in a very hard way

trust me, there are a lot of jobs today that it's actually better you lose it

putting job security > all including having to deal with toxic everything is not good...not even good for your career progression too
let alone your health, mental health and time

I'm blue collar worker. go home when time is up.