Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t a fan of the phrase “work-life balance”.

At a recent awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees.

Jeff Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office. Credit:Bloomberg

Bezos believes that his new hires should stop attempting to achieve “balance” within their professional and personal lives, since that implies a strict trade-off between the two. Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.

Historically, the world’s richest man has a non-traditional approach to work: he makes time for breakfast every morning with his family, doesn’t set his alarm before going to bed, schedules surprisingly few meetings, and still sets aside a few minutes every day to wash his own dishes.