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Many people these days travel far for work or spend more hours working. Does this trend have more sdvantages or disadvantages? What do you think about work-life balance?

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Increasing competition in all
human
Suggestion
humanities
 disciplines has led to much longer working hours for most employees.
Also
, job openings are rarely found close to
one
's place of stay.People have to either travel long distances or even stay away from their
famlies
a social unit living together
families
 on outstation postings.
This
 trend has both advantages and disadvantages and it is not possible to speak in favour of
one
 opinion. Economic centres of cities and towns are usually
few
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fewer
 nodes of high activity in the region. There is not enough space for everyone who works there to stay as well in the same area.
Therefore people
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Therefore, people
 travel
trom
a giver or sender
from
 far to reach these nodes. The advantages of
this
 trend are that
firstly
 it opens up more opportunities for professional growth for
every
all people
everyone
one
.
Secondly
, working in
such
 an environment
keep
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keeps
one
 in touch with all recent developments in the field which would not be possible in a simpler setting
Thirdly
, a healthy work-culture is built over
time
 which is beneficial for the society and the country. The disadvantages of
this
 trend are that people have to spend many minutes or even hours to travel to and from work and
this
 cuts down on the quality
time
 that they spend with their family and children.
Also
, they are not able to devote
time
 for activities like daily exercise, socialising etc.
Thirdly
, spending too much
time
 at the workplace may
also
 have psychological implications for them. In my opinion, it is essential to have a good life-work balance for a happy and content existence. While we cannot say no to great job
opportunities even
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opportunities, even
 if they are far from home, at the same
time
 we should try to see that we can make
time
 for other important aspects of life as well.

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