Employees need to reclaim their lives, rather than looking for ways to fit in more work.

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Consultant Nora Spinks, president of Toronto-based Work-Life Harmony Enterprises Inc., says more Canadians are valuing their time.

Recent college and university graduates, in particular, place a higher premium on work-life balance than their parents did when they entered the work force, and this will put pressure on employers, she says.

“The [new employee] attitude is: You can have a reasonable amount of my time and energy, but you can't have my health, my life, my relationships,” Ms. Spinks says. Even with the round-the-clock accessibility enabled by new technology, Ms. Spinks says working Canadians, especially younger ones, are learning to “turn it off.”

She says the work-life seesaw will tip more in favour of lifestyle considerations over the course of the next decade, as a tighter labour market forces employers to be more accommodating to employee demands.