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When teams say they want work-life balance but act otherwise

My team keeps saying we need better work-life balance but then we collectively choose to work late and take on extra projects, and I can't tell if we're lying to ourselves or if there's something about our work culture we don't know how to change.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between what a group says it values and how it behaves often reflects deeper systemic pressures no individual can address alone.

Ideas that help explain it
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