While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job.
“When the balance of your life becomes a topic, then you have a problem,” Ereño exclusively told Fortune. “You need to like your job, t...
The narrative presented here is a classic example of the "hustle culture" paradigm, where success is framed as requiring total dedication to work, often at the expense of personal boundaries. The strongest version of this argument—advanced by Ereño and others—is that genuine passion for one’s work eliminates the need for balance, as labor becomes indistinguishable from fulfillment. This perspective is not without merit; research in positive psychology does suggest that flow states and intrinsic ...