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Our Fall 2022 issue explored a space where many of us spend most of our waking hours: work. The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many workers鈥攁nd businesses鈥攖o reassess their relationship to work, taking a good, hard look at the way we鈥檝e done things in the past, and, hopefully, finding ways we might do them better in the future.

From overworked employees leading a resurgent labor movement to push back on corporate greed at some of the nation鈥檚 biggest companies, to undergraduate students demanding recognition for the work they do, to climate and labor activists finding common ground, to a caf茅 trying to buck the pressures of capitalism, the 鈥淲ork鈥� issue explored how real people are reimagining work right now.

The issue also invited readers to dream: Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, shared her own practice of centering rest in her daily life and entering a 鈥淒reamSpace鈥� that allows her to be thoughtful, compassionate, and generative in relating to others鈥攁nd in setting boundaries around work that allow her to prioritize her well-being. Nicole Froio dug into the possibility of what might seem a radical future: where work for the sake of meeting our basic needs is no longer necessary.

We hope these stories inspired you, dear readers, to ponder your own relationship with work鈥攈owever you define it. Because while the abolition of work鈥攁nd the capitalism that mandates it in the U.S. and elsewhere鈥攎ight be a long way off, creating change and culture shift begins by imagining something better than where we are today.

In this spirit of generative dreaming and imagining new possibilities, we want to know: What does an ideal work-life balance look like to you? What kind of changes would need to be implemented to support that balance?

Please join 大象传媒 staff and editors in the comments below鈥攜our responses may appear in the next issue of 大象传媒 Magazine!