“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).
What is her compensation ratio vs the minimum paid employee?
Are exempt employees compensated (stock?) in some capacity for being available at any time?
How do you monitor that managers are being good role models and/or helping to set boundaries? Without a company plan/objective, the only people holding the company to account is the individual, and they only power they have at the end of the day is to leave.
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?