The Conflict of Work Life Balance

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Work life balance means the level of prioritization between personal responsibilities and professional work in an individual’s life with maintaining supportive and healthy work environment.

According to the study of (Dhas, 2015) 1 in 4 employees face high level of conflict in between work and family life. So work life balance is a serious problem that’s currently trending in workers, their employers and society. Today employees have many competing life style with so much of responsibilities such as work, children, spouse, elderly parents, house work and volunteering and combination of these place stress on individuals and communities. It seems this typical issue arisen with the development of technology. Because it removes the physical environment of working g and remote working is rise. Work from home highly impacted and no clear line between professional and personal life and increased the responsibilities in work without any scheduled time and working for longer hours. It shows that increasing high female labor force participation rates, and missing lot of family responsibilities when dealing with work. Stress with increasing family responsibilities along with works and loss the happiness of family and highly impacted to children.



Tips to improve Work Life Balance

  • Mange time and works prioritizing the what is important ensuring the main things are the main and allocate more time.
  • Leaving work at work place and try to maintain clear line between home and work. Give the priority to family when employees in home and on the other hand give prioritizing to works in office. 
  • Identify the capacity of once and take proactive actions stressful things that cannot be mange easily. 
  • Managing free time effectively by allocating time to family events and gatherings and engaging in activities that individuals loves. 
  • Concern on physical and mental health well being and engage in activities like mediation and exercises (Lee, 2014).

The behavior of every employee is impacted on the success of the working place. So it is important to maintain operations and flexible working place by concerning all employees and work life balance is important aspect in any working environment because well motivated employees create greater productivity towards the organization (Sanfilippo, 2020). So the concept of employees seems to live to work instead of work to live need to be changed in near future by managing successful professional and personal life of employees.

References

Dhas, D., 2015. A Report On The Importance Of Work-Life. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 10(0973-4562), pp. 21659-21665.

Lee, D. J., 2014. Tips For Better Work-Life Balance. 20 October, pp. 20-21.

Sanfilippo, M., 2020. How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance Today. Business News Daily Contributing Writer, 03 March. 

Comments

  1. Hansika SamarakoonApril 29, 2021 at 7:05 AM

    The COVID has significantly altered the way we live our lives. For many people, the public health crisis has meant a sudden shift to remote work environments. their e are some ways we can manage our work-from-home environment to create a better work-life balance such as Manage Your Expectations, Create a Dedicated Workspace, Take Regular Breaks, Establish Transition Times and etc. (https://www.jcmh.org/how-to-maintain-a-work-life-balance-during-coronavirus/)

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  2. HR ZONE JINODAMay 2, 2021 at 12:35 PM

    Work life balance is really important topic in today's work force since orgasations too try to get the maximum from their employees. Both female and male employees are equally engage with work force and they need do give a big fight to fulfil their duties on time as well as they need to manage their family works, children works, social activities and so on.
    During this covid situation this may become really important topic since they are away from office hours and companies ask their employees without wok frame. I think there should work life balance to employees to increase the productavity.

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  3. Tania De MelloMay 3, 2021 at 1:21 AM

    Balancing work and family demands could be a critical challenge facing most employees. Organisations are challenging an increase in employee flexibility and productivity. The standard “job for life” has reformed into an economic environment of instability and job uncertainty. Workers’ perspectives and expectations have also transformed towards work. New directions towards life-long learning, personal and career development, and an increased awareness and necessity for a balance between work and life have affected organisations through incentivising the introduction of policies such as flexible working, As a result of these demographic, employment, and organisational trends, both men and women have experienced an increase in demands from the familial, household and work domains. In life, there are some things that we may never ‘Get Over' so, sometimes the best we can do is “Get Through” these situations and play to your strengths, don’t try and be all things to all people. Focus on your strengths and leave the rest for later.

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  4. Maduka Udagama May 4, 2021 at 6:08 AM

    Work life balance means a person need time for work and other aspects of life. Encouraging to have a work life balance will result an efficient working environment. It is also helpful for better relationships and health. Work life balance is important because it will improve employee engagement, less burnouts and more mindfulness. Tips like encouraging time-off, implementing short breaks and asking employees for guidance will improve work life balance.

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  5. Ranjana BandaraMay 4, 2021 at 6:48 AM

    People in both the developing and developed worlds now face issues like work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict and perceived employee performance with job satisfaction serving as a moderating variable.

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  6. Apsara RajapakshaMay 5, 2021 at 11:02 PM

    Good topic. You have mentioned the importance to maintain operations and a flexible working place by concerning all employees. True. My opinion is flexible working hours positively impact employees’ work-life balance. This concept is also beneficial for both employees and employers. Flexible working hours give employees the ability to control when, where and how much time to do their work. Thus, flexibility contributes to improvement in the allocation of work and life responsibilities. On the other hand, this concept brings some important benefits to employers such as better employee performance, greater organizational commitment, and lower employee turnover.

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  7. HR Times- Isuru WijayalathMay 6, 2021 at 4:13 AM

    Work-life balance plays its crucial role in helping employees to juggle their role
    between work and family domain. In an increasingly challenging world of employment,
    employees are exposed to work-family conflict i.e work-interference with family
    and family-interference with work. Work-life balance as well as work-family
    conflict is closely related with the quality of life of individuals that involves life and job
    satisfaction

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  8. Sudarshanie PeirisMay 7, 2021 at 4:21 AM

    As per my view, work-life balance is just a noise word and its meaning is not fixed. Work-Life balance is not a theory that one can simply assume or learn as Yoga poses. You will get certain actions and decisions to succeed in work-life balance and its results will either be an enriching one or could fail and result in huge struggles.
    I see work-life balance as the coming collectively of a whole system. both employer and employee attitude all are a part of this work-life balance.

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  9. KD JayakodyMay 8, 2021 at 11:35 AM

    conflict of employment is serious, which impacts workers, the company they work for, and the overall community. More and more employers are becoming concerned about the expense involved with overworked employees. Longer hours and more stressful jobs are typically linked to higher alcohol and tobacco use, studies show.

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