Listen up American companies, the countries with the best work-life balance adhere to a simple practice: trusting their employees

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• Denmark and Finland's business leaders prioritize a culture of trusting employees more often than bosses in the United States. It pays off.

Countries with good quality of life and work-life balance share a common, albeit unsurprising, theme: bosses that trust their employees. While giving employees latitude might not be all that natural to micro-managers, they might need to practice new habits as countries with the happiest employees share this value.