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Work Life Balance

Work life balance involves balancing personal life and professional life. It is important but difficult to maintain in the fast-paced business world. Employers can help employees maintain work life balance by allowing flexible work hours, work from home options, adequate personal time off, competitive compensation, a comfortable work environment, and opportunities for professional growth. Benefits of work life balance include increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, improved customer service, and higher motivation and efficiency among employees. Examples of companies that promote work life balance are Google, which offers free meals, fitness classes, and flexible scheduling, and Cisco, which allows flexible hours and employee passion projects.

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Work Life Balance

Work life balance involves balancing personal life and professional life. It is important but difficult to maintain in the fast-paced business world. Employers can help employees maintain work life balance by allowing flexible work hours, work from home options, adequate personal time off, competitive compensation, a comfortable work environment, and opportunities for professional growth. Benefits of work life balance include increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, improved customer service, and higher motivation and efficiency among employees. Examples of companies that promote work life balance are Google, which offers free meals, fitness classes, and flexible scheduling, and Cisco, which allows flexible hours and employee passion projects.

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WORK LIFE BALANCE

MEANING:

• Work life balance is the state of balancing personal life and professional life.
• It is a tough task to maintain the work and the family in this fast business world.
• It is important to balance the time spent outside the work that includes the family,
relationships, other personal interests and hobbies.
DEFINING WORK LIFE BALANCE FOR EMPLOYEES:
• Defining the work life balance is simple, but working professionals everywhere,
struggle to maintain it.
• Work life balance should be attained across genders.
• Having work life balance helps to reduce stress and chances of burnout.
• Employees face a lot of problems like depression, anxiety and also health issues like
pains, heart problems and hypertension.
• Burnout is caused when employees work for a long time and have continous stress.
HOW CAN AN EMPLOYER ALLOW HIS EMPLOYEE
TO MAINTAIN WLB?

• For most of the employees it is necessary to work, so to


have sufficient money to live, so it is challenging for them
to bring up such issues with the employer.
• The work environment must also allow the employees to
work stress free.  
CONTINUED…

• Employees can be allowed to work in flexible work hours.


• Ability to work from home. If the job or task that can be done from home,
then it can be scheduled to be do from home.
• Personal time off:  It is big positive if they are given to take personal time
without affecting the productivity.
CONTINUED..

• Competitive compensation: one of the biggest stress for employees is


money. 
• Comfortable office conditions: if the employee is happy at work, they will
be more productive. 
• Opportunities in professional growth and socialization.
HOW CAN AN EMPLOYEE ENSURE WORK - LIFE
BALANCE?
SOME IMPORTANT STEPS TO ENSURE WORK LIFE BALANCE FOR AN EMPLOYEE:

• Maintaining healthy diet habits


• Take some break
• Getting enough sleep
• Set priorities
• Pursuing hobbies
• Do exercise everyday
• Leaving work pressure at work
• Spend time with family and friends
• Know when to say no
• Take holiday trips
BENEFITS OF WORK LIFE BALANCE

• When employees are given the space and time to •Increase in productivity
live a balanced life, their well being increases and •Decrease in absence due to sick and
they feel happier.
stress
• This definitely results beneficial for both the •Improves in customer support
employee and the employer. The benefits are •More competition to work in the
listed below: concern
• A motivated employee •Success in achieving goals
• Better levels in efficiency
EXAMPLES:

1. GOOGLE:
• Google has gotten the enormous publicity for its unique employee perks, founded in
1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.,Google offers a long list of benefit
meant to help employees stay healthy and give them a time to work on personal
Projects.
• Among other bonuses Google offers free, gourmet, healthy food, free fitness classes,
gym equipments and massage credit etc, that employees can use at any time. It also
offers flexible hours and scheduling for most employees as well as an impressive amount
of vacation time so workers can reset and stave off burn out.
2. CISCO:

• The Tech Giants Cisco has established a fantastic reputation for caring about it employees
in its part because of its popular “Human network” campaign, founded in 1983 and
headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the company is well known for giving it employees
flexibility with hours and the power to launch and pursue their own passion projects at
work.
• Cisco is is also known for respecting family life and allowing employees more freedom to
address family and social concerns. The company sometimes even allows pulled a remote
positions for mothers and fathers looking to spend more time with their young children.
CONCLUSION

• Thus, maintaining good work life balance benefits both the employer
and the employee.
THANKYOU!!!

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