balance work and home life

[sunsunmoon]

Starting up a home-based business creates many new challenges. One that is unique for a home-based entrepreneur is on the home front, in having to balance work and home life.
(From 10 Ways to Balance Work and Life in A New Home Business | Home Business - Home Based Business - Work From Home - MLM - Work At Home - Home Business Magazine Online)

Is life necessary? Does the sentence sound strange without the word?

 

[White Hat]

to balance work life and home life (take out one of them - you get it right)

 

[sunsunmoon]

Does "balance work and home" make no sense?