{"id":1034,"date":"2017-07-03T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:11:43","slug":"communications-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/communications-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 53% of People in Communications Like Their Work-Life Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A query\u00a0of more than 10,000 tech workers\u00a0reveals that people who work in the communications are least content with their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three percent of workers in the communications department at tech companies say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, according to a July 3 reading of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-worklife-balance\">an ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. Breaking it down by gender, that&#8217;s\u00a059% of men and 49% of women.<\/p>\n<p><b>By department:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-worklife-balance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1038 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/bydept.png\" alt=\"bydept\" width=\"672\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/bydept-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/bydept.png 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By gender<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1039\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin.png\" alt=\"fin\" width=\"735\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin.png 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1040 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin2.png\" alt=\"fin2\" width=\"734\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin2-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/fin2.png 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Workers in other departments rated their work-life balance much higher. Sixty-nine percent of men and 63% of women overall said they approve of their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-worklife-balance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1037\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/yesno.png\" alt=\"yesno\" width=\"668\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/yesno-300x31.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/yesno.png 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By city<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City came out on top, with 77% of workers there saying they approved of their work-life balance. Seattle (75%) and Austin (72%) followed closely behind.<\/p>\n<p>Workers in Atlanta were least happy about their work-life balance (63%), followed by Houston and Los Angeles (64%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-worklife-balance\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1041\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/slc.png\" alt=\"slc\" width=\"645\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/slc-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/slc.png 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A query\u00a0of more than 10,000 tech workers\u00a0reveals that people who work in the communications are least content with their work-life balance. Fifty-three percent of workers in the communications department at tech companies say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, according to a July 3 reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Breaking it down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/communications-work-life-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[69,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}