American shares lessons in work-life balance [Video]

Bernard Meyer moved to Lithuania from the U.S. just over a decade ago — and says he’s learned one key life lesson living in the country: how to have better work-life balance.

Lithuania, located in northeastern Europe, was named the world’s happiest country for young people in the 2024 World Happiness Report, and the 19th happiest country overall.

After growing up in Miami and going to college in Indiana, Meyer moved permanently to Lithuania’s capital city Vilnius in 2012 and still lives there with his wife and two daughters.

The 39-year-old, who’s a senior communications and creative director at marketing automation platform Omnisend, said he’s noticed a profound difference between work culture in the U.S. and Lithuania — where people enjoy a more “relaxed” and “slower pace of life.”

“I think the work-life balance is something that is controllable within each person,” Meyer …