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Is the Concept of a Work-Life Balance Antiquated?

Friday, May 5, 2017

According to Sima Sistani, the founder and COO of Houseparty, the idea of a work-life balance is outdated. Instead, the mother of two focuses on what she calls a constant calibration, that to be successful in your career and family, sometimes you'll need to put one before the other. "This idea of work-life balance, I think it's antiquated," Sistani says. "To be doing your best and always at a 50/50 spectrum is unattainable. There's no way for me to be always awesome on top of my work as COO and co-founder of Houseparty and always [an] awesome attentive mother and wife." Sometimes one will have to take a back seat to the other, she says, but that doesn’t mean that people somehow are failures in either their career or private life. "The idea that you can do both equally well at all times is antiquated and ultimately I think we have to have a broader perspective around not sweating the small stuff and feeling like it's OK for me to be off and on and keep toggling that from week to week, even sometimes day to day," she explains.

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