Based on the research, the highest-leverage single intervention is ensuring employees have sufficient protected focused work time during working hours to complete their most important work. When focused work is routinely displaced by meetings and open-plan noise, employees experience both the cognitive exhaustion of constant context-switching and the pressure of incomplete high-priority work — which then migrates into personal time. Addressing the acoustic quality of the work environment (through soundproof pods) and the meeting volume (through meeting necessity criteria) together produce the most direct work-life balance improvement from a single integrated intervention.