While it's important to maintain certain boundaries between your work life and personal life, fostering a friendship with a co-worker is a healthy way to improve the daily grind.
It's not always professional (or easy) to become bosom buddies with co-workers you work directly with, but being friends with fellow employees from other departments offers many rewards — from having someone to vent to, having a steady lunch date to having someone who can help you when you have a question or feel lost. Do you have a work BFF that you turn to when you need a laugh, help or a shoulder to lean on?
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As much as I'd love for it to be true, saying that I have a good work-life balance would be a lie. It's something that I'm working on but it requires constant reminders and yogic affirmations that "I am a healthy, balanced person." If I had to rate my work-life balance on a scale from one to 10 (one being the least balanced and 10 being the most), I'd have to give a score around four. 
The glow from a leisurely vacation can quickly turn into anxiety-induced insomnia the night before returning to the office. You don't care about showing off your tan to your co-workers who have been stuck in front of their computers; you just want one more day of not adhering to a tight schedule involving more than breakfast, lunch, happy hour, and dinner.
You can help yourself get back into the work groove by doing a little planning ahead of your vacation. 
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Labor Day is a United States federal holiday that was developed in the 19th century to acknowledge the social and economic achievements of working Americans. 
Mitsui & Co., one of Japan's largest companies, is revising the common conception of a work-life balance by reintroducing its old tradition of supplying dorms for unmarried employees. In Tokyo, the company's six dorms for men and two for women cost about $185 a month and provide private bedrooms but a shared cafeteria and bathhouse.
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Are you stressed out about the economy and your finances, and feel like you need to talk to an unbiased party? If so, you're not alone.
Requests for therapists increased 15 percent to 20 percent in the last three months, "primarily driven by concerns about the financial situation," 
Sitting through a sex ed class is probably something you've never done with co-workers, though it could be offered during future lunch breaks. Mark Schuster's program, "Talking Parents, Healthy Teens," has already made its way to 
