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Harley Finkelstein is the president of Shopify, an ecommerce platform valued at over $210 billion.

In a new interview, Finkelstein said that workers should aspire to work-life “harmony,” not work-life balance.

Finkelstein’s word choice echoes the viewpoint of other leaders, like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Work-life balance may be unrealistic, but employees can aspire to work-life “harmony” instead, says Shopify president Harley Finkelstein.

On a recent episode of the Aspire podcast, which aired last week, Finkelstein, who leads the ecommerce platform valued at over $210 billion , called work-life balance a “misnomer.”

“I think actually what we’re all searching for is some sort of harmony,” he said. “There are some Saturdays where I

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