Strategies for Work-Life Balance in an Organization: Insights from Shopify

The People Manager of Shopify discusses the importance of work-life balance in an organization and suggests strategies to achieve it. These include providing work from home facilities, additional perks, and team building activities. The benefits of these strategies include increased productivity, improved retention rate, and better employee morale.

Transcript
Introduction
Good evening, I am ___, the People manager of Shopify. I would like to discuss the
following agenda points with respect to the essentials of a work life balance in an organization
and analyze the strategies that might be adopted by the different members to ensure that they are
able to foster a sense of balance in the life of the different employees. Work life balance simply
means that the organization is required to maintain a balance with respect to the working hours
an employee spends in an organization and that have an outside pursuit as well so that they lead a
healthy and happy life.
Strategies
Having discussed in brief about the meaning of work life balance, I will be discussing the
strategies with respect to this which will help the firm to engage in the surety of a work life
balance for its employees. These strategies are as follows:
1. Providing work from home facilities
The different employees who are working in at Shopify need to be provided with a facility of
work from home as it shall have various benefits like:
 Saved time from commuting which shall save costs as well. Moreover, in the past five
years 40% of the employees have been offering work from home (Fundera.com,
2018).
 It shall bring about an increase in the productivity which shall then allow better work.
According to statistics, two-thirds of the employees believe that when work from

home is provided, productivity increases. Hence, the work from home option shall be
a good one for the employees.
 It will help in improving the retention rate of the organization.
2. Providing additional perks
In case the company is able to provide additional perks to the employees, they will
successfully be able to ensure that their employees get encouraged and shall implement the
following:
 Providing gym membership and other fitness help to the employees
 Help them to aid medical as well as which shall save their costs. Clutch.co (2018),
states that that when the employees are provided with additional perks, their
performance improves considerably.
 This contributes towards an improved overall performance of the employees. In
relation to this, 60% of the employers in the USA feel that additional benefits
improve performance.
3. Indulging in team building activities
The team building activities will then motivate the employees to contribute to the workplace
in a better manner by:
 It helps in fostering creativity as it is believed by 20% of the employees that
indulging in team building activities, help to improve the performance of the
employees and give rise to creativity (Smallbiztrends.com, 2018).
 It helps in boosting the employee morale.

 Lastly, helps in initiating positive bonding between the employees. Just like the firms
in USA believe that the better bonded employees work together in a better manner as
a team Workplace.care.com, 2018).
Conclusion
Therefore, once Shopify is able to adopt these strategies of providing work from home
facilities, additional perks and team building activities, then they will be able to ensure better
performance.