Talk:Work–life balance in the United States

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Danielle's peer review
The article opens up with a straightforward 2 sentence definition that explains what work-life balance is. Next comes the strong history telling how work conditions have changed over the years. Then it is followed by regulations that were made to support individual lives in the workplace. The structure looks understandable with starting with the history part. But, right under the history title is says that there is nothing in that section so maybe there was a mess up of an extra section because it is clear that the next paragraph is where the history part starts. A disparity with work and life is time and is talked about throughout the article telling why hours have changed because of how people felt about a workweek. There were a lot of sources used, which is good because there has been a lot of research on it. There are about 3 links to pages that don’t connect to existing pages though.

The article is very neutral. There weren’t any picking of sides but rather showing examples of regulations that were developed to help a work-life balance. There weren’t any opinions but descriptions of what each subject entails. It is an easy read. The industrial work-life is long but I think it could be a good thing because a lot of stuff happened in the Industrial era. They start their paragraphs on research of that topic then at the end of every paragraph they paraphrase it in their own words and for some give examples of how things work. I think a part about how work has affected home lives can be added because obviously things are being changed in the workplace but what struggles do people deal with to feel like work and life balance is sometimes unfair? But also with that look into not being biased at the same time towards one side because not all people feel the same in a workplace. Other things affect certain people. My favorite thing was the part with “American laws and policies regarding labor.” Not only did they describe what those policies were, they also put it in their own words and used examples on how you would see that in the workplace. 2 minor improvements would be to fix the missing links to “federal public works act,” “Massachusetts maternity leave,” and “Wage and hour law.” Also the broken edit between the history title and where the paragraphs start.

Jordan Khalil's Peer Review: jwk53
The work-life balance article page begins with an excellent timeline of the formation of the topic. Starting with the agricultural work life leading to the present day work-life experience. Although the timeline information helps the reader understand its history, many of the following sections don’t necessarily help the reader understand competing points of views. Recommendations for this article could include viewpoints of work-life balance from employers and employees and the effects a weak work-life balance can impede. Another topic section that could beaded is the steps people can take to ensure a more balanced work-life balance. United States history and the sections Agricultural work through the present, give good information that helps better understand the making of laws, and how we use them today. The contributions included in the individual sections do in fact provide sufficient information on each topic themselves but need improvement on the relating to the topic: work-life balance. The topics themselves, in my opinion need to be rearranged in order to create a more procedural approach to the topic rather than a time of events that relate. Topics such as “Short- and long-term disability” are informational but describes vacation benefits that are unrelated to the title of the section. Timeline information at the beginning give sufficient scholarly articles but, the bottom half needs improvement on sources. Overall I think the information that is present is well written with little to no grammatical errors.

Very poorly worded sentences
The article is hard to understand due to poor grammar. 2600:1004:B0A1:BED0:4F5:AF4D:B97E:68E6 (talk) 19:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

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