EPA’s Chemicals Head Tells Staff to Consider Work-Life Balance

The EPA’s chemicals office is making a series of changes to “reclaim and experience a healthy work-life balance,” according to an internal email from its assistant administrator.

The changes include avoiding scheduling meetings with outside parties on Fridays and between noon and 1 p.m. on all days, encouraging staff to take lunch breaks, and improving meetings by “streamlining topics, requesting agendas, and keeping conversations crisp,” Michal Freedhoff, head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, wrote in an email that was reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

Freedhoff’s effort matches the pledges to improve morale and overall ...