With managers needing more from employees already working at full-tilt, achieving work-life balance is more important—and difficult—than ever

• Telecommuting: Once a Perk, Now a Necessity

  To cut costs, companies such as Capital One are pushing more employees, including even top managers, to work from home

• Career Women at Midlife: Sadder and Sicker

  While women are securing greater power in the workplace, they are also growing less satisfied with their lives as they age

• Twitter's Work-Life Balance Tips

  BusinessWeek asks the Twitterati for their best advice on how to achieve work-life balance

• The Increasing Call for Work-Life Balance

  Work-life balance is now the second most important driver of employee attraction and commitment, says CEB research

• The Baggage We Bring to Work Each Day

  Without realizing it, we sometimes infect our workplace with personal biases or memories from our past, points out Ben Dattner

• Video: Jill Smart on Work-Life Balance

  Accenture CHRO Jill Smart talks about how listening to its diverse, far-flung workforce has helped management devise programs that work for both employees and the company

• The Ethics of Work-Life Balance

  The recession pushes some to work harder than ever, but overextending yourself won't save your job, and it's unethical, too writes The Ethics Guy

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