Are you tired hearing your mum complain you care too much about your job?Photo by Aziz Acharki on UnsplashAs the holidays are close and the pandemic is keeping us all working inside, it’s time to explore how to separate ourselves from work during this coming period.I mean, let’s be honest.Aren’t you tired of hearing your mum complain you care too much about your job?Or maybe your family tells you, you shouldn’t read work email while you’re at home decorating your Christmas tree?If these things tend to happen to you, then you’ll be interested in these tips that have changed my Christmas. Starting out with having to sneak out for work and ending with a work-life balance between family and working time without angering anyone.Holiday being, by definition, “An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling” (Oxford Dictionary), you can clearly wonder why you should include a work-life balance into your lifestyle. That sounds totally irrational. But in today’s world of endless communication and technology, up to 59% of U.S. employees — and 54% of U.K. employees, check their work e-mails during holidays. (research by GFI)Why?Especially in a world where 95% of countries have mandatory paid holidays — the only exceptions being Liberia, the Marshal Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Sri Lanka, Tonga, and the US where no federal law is regulating this — financial factors are clearly not relevant reasons to work during this time. However, you could follow up with the traditional “why not?” and indeed; wouldn’t you work over the holiday season?Most people would assume work is a negative thing and that it’s the necessary effort to survive in this hard world, but as my partner and his brother (discussing work over dinner) would say, “We are not talking about our…