Work-life balance is important in the laboratory, and inefficient workflows cannot only result in an inability to keep up with the daily workload and increased errors but also employee burnout and difficulties retaining valuable staff. After experiencing the issues of long hours, employee dissatisfaction, and struggles recruiting medical doctors and technicians at his laboratory, Humanpathologie Dr. Weiß, Dr. Weiß determined that his laboratory needed to make a change. By changing the workflow with the introduction of SMART Automation from Sakura Finetek, the laboratory was able to increase its workload from 50,000 blocks and 150,000 stains per year to more than 150,000 blocks and 450,000 stains, all while maintaining a standard of quality, saving time and improving employee and pathologist satisfaction and work-life balance.