“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
My interpretation: The "Chief People Officer" at Walmart doesn't want to be responsible for making sure that the people who work at Walmart have a good work life balance.
Does anyone know if Walmart pays more than its competitors?
it’s a very reasonable take: you can’t simply balance work and life at a particular ratio. You must adjust to the demands at the time. Otherwise both work and life will eventually need more than you initially allocated them.
Whether “work life balance” ever meant “fixed work life balance”? For some I imagine. Integration makes it clearer that it’s specifically not that.
(None of this means you should assign “too much” time to work, nor should employers violate labor laws to require you to work without being compensated).
“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
My interpretation: The "Chief People Officer" at Walmart doesn't want to be responsible for making sure that the people who work at Walmart have a good work life balance.
Does anyone know if Walmart pays more than its competitors?
it’s a very reasonable take: you can’t simply balance work and life at a particular ratio. You must adjust to the demands at the time. Otherwise both work and life will eventually need more than you initially allocated them.
Whether “work life balance” ever meant “fixed work life balance”? For some I imagine. Integration makes it clearer that it’s specifically not that.
(None of this means you should assign “too much” time to work, nor should employers violate labor laws to require you to work without being compensated).
In my country supermarkets are all run by literal teenagers and a few "older" floor managers who are in their 20s. Very cheap.
Cool, cut his comp by 100x and ask him again the same question.
Her. Donna Morris is executive vice president and chief people officer at Walmart.
And it's base of $250k salary plus all the bonuses, often blowing out to over $1M a year. I'd guess she's in the $5M+ range, a year.
Awesome, then a 99% reduction would bring her comp close to the median US income (and higher than a Walmart associate who has to live on food stamps).
Much better position to make an informed comment about work life balance.
“Work-life integration” has superseded “work-life balance” for more than a decade now.
Neither works, hence the huge draw of working from home.
“I’ve never believed in bringing your true self to work. The motto is: fake it till you fake it again”