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

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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