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How to Protect Work-Life Balance in the Fashion and Beauty Industries

Industry insiders share advice on how employees in notoriously competitive fields like fashion and beauty can protect their working hours and set professional boundaries while achieving career goals and growth.
An image shows two people standing side-by-side on a cobblestone plaza in direct sunlight. Both are shown from the neck down, wearing long, structured overcoats and carrying black leather briefcases. The person on the left wears an olive green wool coat over a long, pleated dark skirt and chunky black boots. The person on the right wears a floor-length black coat with white buttons and black leather heeled boots. Long shadows stretch across the light-colored pavement behind them.
In recent years, fashion and beauty employees have reassessed — and are increasingly reasserting — their priorities outside the office. (Pexels)

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How to Handle Burnout in the Fashion Workplace

Creative cadences, competitive colleagues and an ‘always on’ mindset create ample opportunity for failing to maintain a healthy work-life balance in fashion. Psychologists, mental health experts and industry professionals share their advice on mitigating burnout in fashion.

The 2025 Playbook for Employer Branding

During a recent LinkedIn Live, BoF’s senior correspondent Sheena Butler-Young and commercial features editorial director Sophie Soar shared insights into how companies can account for a workforce with evolving needs and expectations — from providing perks and services with cross-generational appeal, to navigating return-to-office policies in a new work environment.

About the author
Dan Hastings
Dan Hastings

Dan Hastings is the Commercial Features Editor at The Business of Fashion (BoF). Based in London, he oversees BoF Careers’ content, including the “Building a Career in Fashion and Beauty” and “Insider Advice” series, and writes, edits and presents partner-commissioned work.

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