PepsiCo's 'Leave Loudly' Strategy for Work-Life Balance

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Introduction
Human Resource Organization is considered to be an efficient part of any organization
whereby the different initiatives made by the organization tends to have a positive impact on the
workforce. When the workforce is motivated they tend to perform well and this is generally quite
beneficial for the firm in the long run. The given essay will be discussing the strategy used by
PepsiCo Co in order to ensure that the different employees maintain a suitable work life balance
which will be beneficial for the long term success of the organizations (The Search for Hidden
Figures., 2018). Various points like the rationale behind the implementation of the strategy, the
rationale behind it and the benefits to the firm will be discussed.
About the company
PepsiCo is an American multinational snack and beverage company which has its
headquarters in New York. The company was formed in 1965 and has expanded considerably
since then into a broader range of offerings. The company is known as one of the best places to
work in and has expanded its portfolio considerably.
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Strategic HR priorities pursued by the company
The PepsiCo Company has been in business since a long period of time and since then it
has realized the importance of the human resource in the given organization. The employees tend
to act as the backbone of the business thereby making it very important to ensure that in order to
achieve operational success the firm would be required to foster a positive environment for its
different employees (Storey, 2014). Hence, the long term strategic priorities which are required
to be pursued by the company is the development of an environment which supports growth and

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development (Cascio, 2018). Managing work life balance is the ultimate objective of the
business a reason which causes the highest turnover rate. The firm in this aspect had prioritized
to reduce its high turnover rate. The turnover rate aims to determine the success of the business
and also has an impact on the cost of the business. Hence, though the priority the company aims
to reduce the turnover rate.
Rationale of implementing the ‘leave loudly’ strategy
The leave loudly strategy aims to raise the presentism of the given organization. This
means that it wants to encourage employees to take their work easily and be able to implement
policies which help the different workers in maintaining their work life balance. For this purpose,
they have taken out the policy of the Leave Loudly. This will work in a manner that when a
senior employee will be coming too late for personal commitments and leaving early, they will
let the middle level and junior level employees understand their reasoning behind this (Brewster,
2017). This shall portray an image that if the senior management can take leaves and not adhere
to much pressure, then the middle level employees and the junior level ones can do the same and
ensure that they are being able to meet their personal commitments as well. Emails and other
work related phone calls are also not allowed in order to provide a stress free environment to the
different employees present at the workplace (Kehoe & Wright, 2013). This policy was praised
not only by women who has personal commitments but also by men who preferred this new
convenience and an opportunity to spend some valuable time with their closed ones.
Hence, to state briefly the leave loudly policy is one which is developed in order to
encourage the employees to maintain a work life balance and to provide them with an
environment which encourages their Morales and reduces absenteeism (Alfes et al., 2013).