Strategies and Recommendations for Maintaining Work Life Balance

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................2
Strategies for Work Life Balance...........................................................................................3
Recommendations for maintaining the work life balance......................................................6
Conclusion............................................................................................................................10
References............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The purpose of the report is to provide work life balance strategies to create a
positivity in the minds of the employees. These strategies helps the corporation not only to
retain the employees who are probably thinking to leave the job but also to increase their
efficiency. Further recommendations will be provided based on the strategies, which has been
attained to solve the problems that can adversely affect the daily functioning of the business.
An action plan shall be suggested to take care of the problems and maintain the smooth
functioning of the business.
The term work life balance itself suggests that there exists problems in the personal
life, which occurs due to the daily pressures arising from work. It is the balance between the
personal life and professional life on an individual. The main parameter, which is the reason
behind this type of problem, is time. Sacrifice is the way of life, therefore to create an
equilibrium situation between the personal and professional life it is essential to sacrifice the
time span in the professional zone and devote it to the personal space for increasing the
positivity in the minds of the individual.
Reasons behind Work Life Imbalance
The main parameters of work life balance are:
a) Gender
b) Time
c) Characteristics of the Family

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Though it is based on the theory of majority determination, it has been observed that the
major problems occur is due to the differences in gender and their preferences in life. Mostly,
it is seen that the male gender are inclined towards the financial responsibilities and prefer to
sacrifice the time span of the personal time and tries to devote it towards professional time.
On the other hand, the female working professionals are more inclined towards their personal
life and likes to spend their time with their family rather than professional time.
Time is another important factor contributing and directly proportional to the balance
between professional time and personal time. The corporate structure of the companies
schedules employees to work for long hours due to the inflexibility of working hours,
elongated shifts, and night shifts luring the employees with higher remunerations. This
creates an imbalance in both the aspects of life. Though satisfaction is a subjective issue and
differs from person to person, work life balance is an essential element required for both
mental and physical health.
Thirdly, the characteristics of the family members are also of huge importance and
affects the mentality of the employee in both positive and negative way. They maybe single
or married, parents with single and dual source of income. When the professional life takes
away the necessary responsibilities away from the personal life, the balance gets disturbed
and causes mental distress.
Strategies for Work Life Balance
Strategies provide a structure to the situation and helps the individuals to plan out the
process in a systematic way which helps the entity to provide a direction to the stress and
come up with a fruitful solution helping him or her to cope up with the problems in real life.
The strategies for maintaining a work life balance are as follows: