Young Workers Value Work-Life Balance. They’re Just Bad at It.

Young professionals pledge admiration for peers who carve out personal time, then fail to do the same for themselves

Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer for The WAll Street Journal; Source Photos by Stephanie Denzer (14)

Early-career professionals prize work-life balance. Turns out many are bad at it.

The youngest people in the office say the peers they most admire carve out personal time and live life on their own terms. Fancy titles and fat salaries are far less impressive, according to Deloitte’s annual survey of millennials and Gen Zers, shared with The Wall Street Journal ahead of next week’s release.

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