Life, Work, And Everything In Between! Special Reissue

Life, Work, And Everything In Between! Special Reissue

From Oops, Your Culture's Showing! by Oops, Your Culture's Showing! ©2018: Dean Foster, Tom Peterson, and Torin Peterson

May 28, 2026 · 44 min

About this episode

This episode discusses work-life balance across different cultures, contrasting how various countries legislate and value this balance.

As we rapidly approach the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, many school schedules are preparing to slow down or take a break in the warmer months, as some work schedules do too. With this in mind, please enjoy this special reissue of our 35th episode on work-life balance in cultures around the globe, “‘Work to live’ cultures, and ‘live to work’ cultures”, from October 2022. We here at ‘Oops, Your Culture’s Showing!’ will also be taking a break from releasing episodes over the coming months, as we soak up some sun (hopefully on a beach with a cold drink in one or both hands), travel, and time with family and friends. We’ll see you out there on the beach, dear listeners – and while getting those rays, it’s a perfect time to visit/revisit our entire back catalogue of episodes! Listening to this while eating lunch in the workplace? Fais attention (be careful!) because if you’re in France, that’s illegal. In this episode, Dean and Tom get to work contrasting how countries from France to Japan to the US value, and even legislate, work-life balance – and, bien sûr (of course!), how it’s all grounded in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dean Foster, Tom Peterson

Topics covered

  • work-life balance
  • cultural differences
  • legislation
  • global perspectives
  • summer break
  • work culture

Keywords

  • work-life balance
  • cultural values
  • France
  • Japan
  • US
  • legislation
  • summer break
  • business culture

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales, and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World

Places: France, Japan, US

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