Work-Life Balance
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The degree to which someone can sustain meaningful work without crowding out rest, relationships, health, and life outside the job. In tech, the phrase often appears in tension with startup urgency, on-call load, and productivity culture.
In plain English: Keeping work from overwhelming the rest of your life.
Example: "The team’s retention problem improved once managers started treating work-life balance as a design constraint instead of a perk."