Work Life Balance

On June 26, 2015 we visit alcoholic anonym Hispanic group called “Poco a poco”. The group was composed by 11 males and two females. Their ages were 30 being the youngest one and the rest between 40 to 60 years old that put them in middle adulthood stage. Beside their room there was another group non-Hispanic. We got to the place fifteen minutes early which gave us the opportunity to observe the two different cultural group waiting outside for their section to start. What we notice first was that the non-Hispanic group where composed by 5 males and 4 females all from the middle adulthood stage, they all interact well with each other and they all were smoking cigarettes. The Hispanic group they all salute each other but none was smoking cigarettes. The section of the AA meeting start on time. The first thing they all did was to greet us when we enter the section. They begin their meeting reciting the twelve stages and after that they made a prayer. After the prayer they said their rules of participation and everyone turn off and/or silence their cellphones. Each individual took 30 minutes to talk. They explain the first time they drink, and how they all broke

The report is based on responses collected from more than 1000 employers and 2000 employees, considered UK workforce only and was conducted in early January 2012. The report presents an in-depth view of the types of flexible working provisions offered by employers including part-time working, working from home, flexitime, compressed hours, career breaks/sabbaticals, mobile working, term-time working, secondments, annual hours and time off work in the community.

A healthy work/life balance to me means that I am meeting my goals and fulfilling my commitments to the people in those realms of my life. For example, if I am able to, in the time and resources I am given, be able to spend time with friends while being able to pay my bills while meeting my objectives at work; that to me is a successful balance.

Ms. Isabel Rimanoczy made great points in this article. Though some may view her as a work body, she and I share a mutual understanding when it comes to work-life balance. Ms. Rimanoczy is not buying the idea that there is some sort of balance between the two aspects of our lives. “Work-life balance is dead” and it may be a good thing” (Rimanoczy, 2015). I agree with her statement because if anyone takes the time to think about it, they will soon come to terms with the idea that it really becomes impossible to separate work and personal life. Some of us grow up with moral values, standards, and family traditions carried on through religious beliefs. When we go to work we will bring along our character because our personal life defines us as

After the global financial crisis in the 1970s, British labour market experienced a great shift in the organization and the new distribution of human resources (Hughes and Fergusson, 2004:95). It is undeniable that this economic recession had brought huge challenges to British economic development. The managers of organizations realized the significance of rising to the occasion in order to remain competitive power, which resulted in the emergence of flexible time work systems (ibid: 96). More specifically, zero-hour contracts have been applied. Pardey (2013:6) points out that zero-hour contracts are labour contracts between employers and employees which offer uncertain work and unfixed working hours. According to Tovey (2013), the study from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), nearly 3.1% of British labour force has

Each persons work/life balance is different because we each have our own priorities and lives. To have a good balance between work and life doesn’t mean you need to schedule an equal amount of hours in each day between the two. It means to have a

The importance of work life balance and related legislation concerning holidays, rest periods, working hours and night working

Companies whose organizational design supports its employees’ work-life balance may be more financially successful than those that does otherwise. Many employees consider work-life balance more important than the monetary reward. Employees with a balanced personal and professional life demonstrate a better job performance than those who feel “pressured” in either their personal or professional life. In ideal situations, employer demands and employee’s ideal work situation rarely meet the middle ground, those who do, perceive that they are in control.. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Healthcare Clinic’s organizational design based on the employees’ work-life balance.

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

Work-life balance is a combination of interactions among different areas of one’s life; the advantages and disadvantages associated with that balance/imbalance are countless and can affect multiple levels of society (Schoenfeld, 2005).

Employees can work part time or full time which allows for more comfort and convenience. Which often enables an employee to keep his/her day job and add on a second job.

Work-life balance is a generalised term in which an individual is able to manage or

Analyze about the quality relationship between paid work and unpaid responsibilities in an organization. The work life balance practices not only for employees themselves, but also for their families, organizations and society. The work-life conflict has significant relationship between business costs and with lack of engagement, absenteeism, turnover rates, low productivity and creativity or poor retention levels. It is also found that there are some factors of organizational work-life culture that may compromise availability and use of these practices.

·     Balance - "Management's recognition of the importance of personal and family life remains the top driver of employee loyalty. Employees who spend a moderate amount of time each week attending to personal matters while at work have a higher level of commitment to their employer than those who spend no time." (America @ Work 1999," Aon Consulting, Chicago, Illinois; 312.701.4844) Employers who provide a work/life/family balance

A healthy work-life balance has many benefits including better general health for the employees, higher job satisfaction, reduced stress in both the professional and personal life and greater focus on meeting the work objectives.