Highly flexible, agile, free, and mobile – for many companies and experts, this is what the work model of the future looks like. Following the concept of work-life balance, where the two poles of work and leisure are to be kept as balanced as possible, the transitions between them are now meant to be fluid, if not merge entirely – the new magic formula is called work-life blending. However, this supposed ideal can quickly turn into a nightmare. Especially when looking at the current developments towards the world of work 4.0 or industry 4.0, it becomes clear very quickly: The megatrends of digitization, flexibility, and virtualization are being implemented unilaterally at the expense of people. "Work-life blending is a deceptive package," says Christian Scholz, "because the job metastasizes and takes over the entire life." The alleged freedom leads to self-exploitation. Work-life blending is.