Jeff Bezos, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of one of the fastest-growing, most disruptive companies in the world, has little of a "work/life balance" in the traditional sense. The leader of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) didn't rise to the top of the tech industry by segmenting his life into enjoyment an🌸d hard work, yet spun the idea on its head and built🐬 something that looks more like a "work/life mesh." According to Bezos, the concept of a work/life balance is extremely limiting, and can prevent people from pursuing their passions and reaching their highest potential. 

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Work/Life Relationship Is C💞ircle of Positive Reinforcement, Not Balancing Act

At a recent hosted by publisher Axel Springer, the business mogul indicated that he recommends his employees completely erase the beaten-in idea of needing to have a strict trade-off between their personal and pr🍰ofessional lives. Instead, he tells new hires to strive towards a more holistic relationship between "life at the office" and "life at home." 

Bezos, who grew up in a middle-class family and became the world's richest man last year, makes a point to take time to do simple things outside of his duties at the helm of a $732 billion company. Parts of his routine mirror that of a "normal life." Amazon's CEO wakes up without an alarm every morning, eats breakfast with his family, takes a limited number of meetings and sets aside time for tasks such as washing his own dishes. 

"This work-life harmony thing is what I try to teach young employees and actually senior executives at Amazon too. But especially the people coming in," said Bezos. "I get asked about work-life balance all the time. And my view is, that's a debilitating phrase because it implies there's a strict trade-off."

According to the master mind behind "the everything store," the relationship between work and life is the most beneficial and fulfilling when working as a circle, or some type of positive loop, rather than a balancing act. 

"If I am happy at home, I come into the office with tremendous energy," Bezos said, according to Business Insider. "And if I am happy at work, I come home with tremendous energy. You never want to be that guy — and we all have a coworker who's that person — who, as soon as they come into a meeting, they drain all the energy out of the room ... You want to come into the office and give everyone a kick in their step."

While Bezos' comments on work culture may seem bold and counter intuitive, his ideas are in line with that of a growing group of entrepreneurs, freelancers, "gig economy" workers, and other "digital nomads" who refuse to view work as simply a means to an income, or a step towards retirement. 

As they say, "if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life." As millennials demand this new type of job satisfaction as part of a well-rounded, meaningful life, corporations across the board, and notably tech's biggest behemoths such as Amazon, have invested heavily in creating a more flexible work experience that complements personal endeavors and inspires social interaction. (See also: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Measuring澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Job Satisfactꦺion in the Millennial 🍨Age.)