Work-Life Balance...!!!

Work-Life Balance

We have often seen older ones saying that we should work for 24 hours but today I want to discuss here about work-life balance. How we should balance our work and life? Life here means spending time with our family and also in activities like spirituality etc.

According to Wikipedia, Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between "work" (career and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). Now this has to be understood clearly. It has been seen in recent years that employees are giving less importance to their social life including to their family to work hard and long in their offices. We may also say that competition in the business world is forcing them to do so.

So, one may say what is the harm in that? But t has to be taken into consideration that difficulty in balancing work-life is creating a lot of stress in employees resulting into many mental, physical and social problems and it is growing day by day. Those who are not able to maintain equilibrium between both are reporting higher numbers of problems in solving their day to day problems too.

About stress, Wikipedia says Persistent stress can result in cardiovascular disease, sexual health problems, a weaker immune system and frequent headaches, stiff muscles, or backache. It can also result in poor coping skills, irritability, jumpiness, insecurity, exhaustion, and difficulty concentrating. Stress may also perpetuate or lead to binge eating, smoking, and alcohol consumption.

Now if all these problems pertain in any employee, his both personal and professional life will be affected surely. It is reported that most of the employees feel satisfied with PAID-LEAVE amongst all other perks and incentives which means that work-life balance is surely missing somewhere and thus affecting employee.

So remedies for setting this imbalance right… First and foremost OPEN UP..!!! My real remedy to all HR problems. After that, six main components for work-life balance those are needed to be monitored are:-

Self Management, Time Management, Stress Management, Change Management, Technology Management and Leisure Management.

All these components can be discussed separately later on this blog only. Tomorrow we will discuss about GENDER factor of work-life balance.

Till then, Good Night… and OPEN UP…!!! Stay Happy… :)

Comments and suggestions are welcome… :)