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Work/Life Balance For Passionate Geeks
Presented by Joshua Warren
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OR:
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Put That Laptop Down And Come To Bed!
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About Me
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PHP DeveloperWorking with PHP since 1999
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Founder & CEOFounded Creatuity in 2008
PHP Development Firm
Focus on the Magento platform
I was inspired, in large part, by never wanting to work in a traditional office thanks to the movie
‘Office Space’.
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Frequent Conference Presenter
Occasional Open Source Contributor
Over-Tweeter
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Hardware Hacker
Avid Sci-Fi Reader
Aspiring Author
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JoshuaWarren.com
@JoshuaSWarren
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IMPORTANT!
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What’s That?
Work/Life Balance
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–Wikipedia
A concept including proper prioritizing between "work"
and "lifestyle"
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–Wikipedia
“Lifestyle” includes health, pleasure, leisure, family &
spiritual development/meditation
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Work/Life Balance
Used to be simple
Work 8 hours making widgets, then go home
The widgets didn’t follow you home
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Work/Life Balance TodayWork 8+ hours
Spend an hour driving home
Check your work email on your smartphone
Finish up “one last bit” of work after dinner
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–Every Overworked Developer
That’s OK, though, because I love what I do!
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Work/Life Integration
“If people enjoy what they do, there’s no need to draw strict lines.” —Fortune Magazine
Not a bad concept, but…
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Work/Life Integration
Work/Life Integration, especially when abused by employers, destroys personal boundaries
Healthy personal boundaries are critical to self-worth, happiness & fulfillment
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The best attempts at work/life integration use technology to allow employees to alter their work to
better accommodate their personal life.
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The worst attempts at work/life integration use technology and peer pressure to take advantage of
passionate, driven employees.
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Cui Bono
Evaluate a company’s work/life initiatives by asking a simple question - cui bono - “to whose benefit?”
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Or: It’s about to get real…
The Personal Case For Work/Life Balance
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2,000 Saturdays
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#OpenWest
The average male in his mid-30’s has 2,000 Saturdays left in his life.
Don’t waste them.
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2,000 sounds like a lot - but think about how fast each weekend disappears.
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Also, that assumes you reach the average.
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Every year, our community loses friends and colleagues well before their time
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Work is important, but life is precious, and it’s entirely too short.
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Importance of Personal Time
Develop and maintain healthy relationships
Personal growth & development
Happiness & fulfillment
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Importance of Personal Time
Improve your health
Lower stress levels
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Or: A slightly less depressing, more business-y segment
The Business Case for Work/Life Balance
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#OpenWest
Tech executives - you’re not running a factory. Stop treating
your employees like factory workers.
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Studies have linked personal downtime to increases in creativity, memory, learning and problem solving.
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Hiring millennials? 40% of them will leave if you don’t have a good work/life balance
policy. — Washington Post
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In other words - do you want high performing employees who are creative, solve problems and
help your business grow?
Give your employees downtime!
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Or: Stop Working Your Employees To Death
Implement Work/Life Balance at Work
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#OpenWest
Work/life balance is not a perk. It’s an attitude of respect for each
employee’s life and need for rest.
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Healthy work/life balance requires a culture where employees feel safe disconnecting from work.
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Create clear boundaries and expectations between working and non-working times.
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Flexible hours and working from home are great, but create a clear boundary that signals to manager and
employee when the employee is working.
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Flexible hours and remote work are not an excuse or justification for overworking employees.
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As an employee - ask for these boundaries if you’re not receiving them.
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Popular OptionsTelecommuting
20+ PTO days
Compressed workweek
Flexible schedules
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These options are great, but implemented on their own without a cultural change, they are often
underutilized.
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For example - instead of “flexible schedules”, set “core hours”.
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Corporate employees of Darden Restaurants have core hours from 9:00AM - 3:30PM
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Old culture: all employees must be in the same office at the same time, or they aren’t getting work done
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New culture: it’s important for employees to be able to collaborate, but their productivity won’t suffer if
they don’t have the exact same hours.
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Or: Rediscover Those People and/or Pets Living In Your Home
Implement Work/Life Balance at Home
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Set boundaries.
Determine what you and your family are comfortable with, and stick to it.
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For some people, that means work stays at work.
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For others, it means getting that last hour of work in after the kids have gone to bed.
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Experiment with small changes.
I banned laptops from my bedroom and discovered that one change greatly improved my sleep.
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#OpenWest
Know yourself. Take time to set priorities to help you guide your
own personal balance between work and life.
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Track all of your time for a week - including time spent at home.
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Does your time spent at home match up with your priorities? If not, rearrange until it does.
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Treat your personal time the same way you treat your work time.
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Would you walk out of a meeting at work for a minor issue at home?
Then don’t give up your personal time for a minor issue at work!
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Focus on your health
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Get better sleep - FitBit
Improve your nutrition - MyFitnessPal
Get some sort of exercise - FitBit + MyFitnessPal
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Even minor improvements to your health will have a noticeable impact on your work/life balance and your
enjoyment of life
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Or: gl hf
Work/Life Balance For Remote Workers
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Remote workers tend to have the very best or very worst work/life balance.
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Again - it all comes down to boundaries.
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Set clear boundaries with everyone involved - both your family and your coworkers.
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Ensure your family respects your work time - establish a clear signal when you are ‘at work’.
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Ensure your work respects your family time - establish clear rules and expectations of when you will and
won’t be reachable.
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Find a support group - A coffee shop, a coworking space, a makerspace.
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You need an in-person outlet for work-related stress other than your family.
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Or: gl hf dd
Work/Life Balance For Passionate Geeks
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Example: You’re a full-time PHP developer who spends all day working with a custom app in Laravel
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Coming home and working on a personal project in Laravel - is it work?
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Personal projects closely related to what you do at work aren’t necessarily bad.
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The key is balance.
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Don’t spend all of your personal time on a project that closely mirrors what you do at work.
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Split your personal time between projects similar to your work and completely unrelated projects.
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Start small - if you usually work with Symfony at work, learn Laravel at home.
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Then, find hobbies in unrelated areas
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Spending your downtime learning a new hobby or skill will boost your creativity.
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If you’re a software developer, buy an Arduino and start tinkering with circuits.
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Combine your interests and your work with new hobbies as well.
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For example - I enjoy speaking with developers and trying new beers.
I use every trip I take - for work or pleasure - to connect with local user groups and get their recommendation
for a good local beer.
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Work/life balance is hard. Especially for those of us passionate about our work.
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It’s an important topic, and important to get it right - those 2,000 Saturdays will pass by in a blink.
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Set aside time for yourself, for your family and for downtime.
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Stop and think about how you’re spending your time, and what boundaries you have in place.
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#OpenWest
Define one boundary between your work and your life and starting Monday, respect that boundary.