On a corner of West Philadelphia, the cranes have been busy. The project? A few hundred luxury apartments aimed at professionals working at the nearby University City Science Center. Increasingly, notes Stephen Tang, president and CEO of this incubator and research park, the professionals running these startups want to work and live in the same space. They think little of a workout at noon and a conference call at 9 p.m. "I think it's just life," Tang says. If people enjoy what they do, there's no need to draw strict lines. He's not the only one thinking this way. Increasingly people are rejecting the notion of "work/life balance" in favor of another phrase: "work/life integration." Thanks to smartphones and the growing popularity of working remotely, moving work around on dimensions of time and space is not only possible, but has become the norm.
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