This is way better than many realize. There are many factors and measures that contribute to achieving a good work-life balance. This is the full 2025 Work-Life Balance Ranking. Comparing developed countries, Belgium maintained its 3rd place, with a slight improvement in the index compared to 2024, reaching 75.91. Does this reflect the reality of most workers and surpass expectations?

by Basic_Bird_8843

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  1. It won’t ever be enough if I am to believe this sub lol

  2. Yet people on this sub constantly claim that our ridiculous amount of longterm sick people is caused by a brutal work culture compared to Germany and the Netherlands.

  3. At the cost of an unsustainable budget trajectory. But hey, others still pay right? We’re trading comfort now for tomorrow’s challenges.

  4. Its actually good in Belgium. Probably not for everyone ofc.. but in general.

  5. When I moved to Belgium I quickly learned that complaining is an unofficial national sport and started complaining too, but really this is far and wide the best country to raise a family I’ve ever lived on (among more than a few) and I’m not planning to leave until my children are raised to adulthood, maybe not ever if I can learn the language well enough to complain about the weather when sitting by retired ladies at bus stops.

    I am in a very intensive field/industry and this is basically one of maybe two or three places for this line of work in the planet where I can (planning for it of course) just get up and go pick up the kids from school in the middle of the afternoon and not lose anything at work by doing so. Maybe Belgium has got it good partly because of complaining though, so it might be a good idea to keep complaining…

  6. Source feels dubious, it’s a SaaS service focused on global payroll global expats. Belgium worklife balance is probably pretty good but I would take this index with a grain of salt since I doubt it takes any blue collar workers in consideration, or people working for small companies outside of the Brussels sphere.

  7. If we’re talking about the overall tax burden for an average employee, we’re the first, so I want the first place.

  8. this feels like bs. I spend 8.5h a day at work even though technically I work 36 hour weeks due to an obligatory unpaid break, and yet I only have 20 days vacation per year. new mothers go back to work after three months. THREE. I can get fired at every turn for pretty much no reason and it’s considered fine. the only reason why it might seem balanced is because mothers are forced to work 4/5 because teachers are too lazy to work a full week.

    who designes those studies, exactly?

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