---
title: 'Work-Life Balance'
description: 'Helps understand where work encroaches on personal time and what prevents people from fully recovering.'
type: template
locale: en
canonical: 'https://app.teal.band/en/templates/work_life_balance'
---

# Work-Life Balance

Helps understand where work encroaches on personal time and what prevents people from fully recovering.

## When to use

Employees often work in the evenings, reply to messages on weekends, and cannot fully rest even on vacation. You want to measure the extent to which the boundaries between work and personal life are broken, and understand who triggers this rhythm—people or processes.

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 5
- **Questions:** 14
- **Respondent:** A company employee whose work tasks, communications, or vacation boundaries may intrude on personal time.
- **Topic:** Well-being and workload

## What it diagnoses

- **Overtime and workload manageability:** Shows how regularly work extends beyond the expected time frame and whether the workload can be renegotiated in time.
- **Availability outside working hours:** Shows whether there is an explicit or implicit expectation to respond to work messages, calls, and tasks after the workday.
- **Recovery and psychological detachment:** Shows whether the employee is able to stop carrying work in their mind and recover during personal time.
- **Vacation disconnection:** Shows whether the employee can genuinely disconnect on vacation thanks to task handover, coverage, and clear exceptions.
- **Boundary norms and manager support:** Shows how much rules on urgency, availability, and manager behavior make personal boundaries clear and respected.

## Example questions

- I regularly have to do work tasks in the evening, on weekends, or during personal time in order to meet work expectations.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What helps tasks usually fit within working hours?
- My work regularly has more tasks than can realistically be completed during working hours.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What helps you keep the volume of tasks within working hours?
- When there are more tasks than fit within working hours, I find it hard to discuss the overload in advance and renegotiate priorities, deadlines, or scope.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What helps you discuss overload in advance and renegotiate expectations?

## What the report contains

The report will highlight pain points: the volume of uncontrolled overtime, the expectation to be available 24/7, the inability to psychologically detach from tasks, and the quality of rest. You will see where managers support healthy boundaries and where they break them themselves.

## Similar templates

- [Burnout](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/burnout.md) — Helps understand whether employees have enough energy, recovery, and a sense that their work is useful.
- [Wellbeing (SHAPE)](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/wellbeing.md) — Helps understand whether employees have enough energy, support, and conditions for calm, sustainable work.