Top Tips to Foster a Better Work-Life Balance in Your Organization
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Work-life balance has always been encouraged as a topmost objective to strive for and fortunately, this idea has come to the forefront during the Covid-19-induced pandemic. With the current trends shaping the workforce that includes remote and hybrid work models, maintaining the work-life balance has become one of the crucial factors for employee satisfaction and overall organizations' success as well.?
Organizations that undervalue this aspect, will definitely struggle with attracting and retaining the top talent. Employees, especially millennials and Gen Z, look for organizations that acknowledge their time and mental health and prioritize the ones who offer employee wellbeing policies, take significant steps in employee engagement, and provide flexible working hours and high-value perks.
A recent poll by SilverPeople has resulted that employees prefer work-life balance over salary hikes or any other financial incentives when choosing an organization to work for.?
So how does an organization approach make this culture that fosters a better work-life balance for its employees?
In this blog, I am going to explore some of the main advantages of creating a healthy work-life balance for both employees and employers along with the ways for creating a better work-life balance that employees will profoundly appreciate.
Advantages of Work-Life Balance for Employees
A healthy work-life balance allows employees to feel more in charge of both elements of their life (personal and professional) and leads to:
Advantages of Work-Life Balance for Organizations
The advantages of a balanced work-life are not restricted to only the workforce, but healthy work-life policies and flexible working practices also benefit an organization in -?
Top Ways to Support a Healthy Work-life Balance for Your Employees
Offer Flexible Working
In today's competitive employment market, flexible work arrangement is a key differentiator in the eyes of candidates that incorporate the buzzwords like a home office, telecommuting, flex time, digital nomad, and remote working. Apart from lucrative perks, candidates value employers who support a broader work-life balance and enable them to manage their own time.
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Focus on Productivity Rather Than Hours Worked
Managers need to evaluate employees on their output, not how long they work per day. As long as they can complete their work accurately and on time, the work hours they select should not be a concern.
Review Workloads Regularly
When workload is fairly divided based on employee abilities and availability, it makes the best use of everyone’s time and efforts. Review your allotment of duties to make sure each team member has an achievable workload. Ask them to notify managers when they are overworked or have spare capacity.?Assigning a fair workload helps reduce stress levels and improve productivity.
Encourage Time Off
Encouraging your employees for time off from their job is one of the best ways to prevent burnout and boost productivity. A number of organizations have proactively upheld paid time off per year as a part of their policy and as a result, seen a positive shift in the level of employee dedication, motivation, and productivity.
Make Them Feel Connected
Whether all your employees are working from a single location or are spread across the nation or world, they want to feel connected to their networks.
Organizations should work on creating opportunities for their employees to engage them with their networks either in person or virtually. Additionally, to make a tailored experience for each employee, organizations should cultivate a transparent communication channel and engage with their employees on what they need to feel productive, ask them about any work-life challenges, and what might help them.
In addition to the top ways of fostering a healthy work-life balance for their employees, organizations can also work on providing growing and learning opportunities, endorse equal maternity, paternity, or shared parental leaves, and offer creative incentives like free or discounted lunches, shopping vouchers, subsidized gym membership or free fitness classes, and so on.
Final Words
The concept of work-life balance has been fastened in the last two years allowing greater flexibility between the personal and professional aspects of people’s lives. But remember, when it comes to nurturing a better work-life balance for employees, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Organizations should customize their strategy for every individual employee and take the business forward.
The people-centric organizations like SilverPeople have already incorporated the measures of a healthy work-life for their employees and are reaping the rewards.?
Are you an organization where your people are your most valuable asset, and taking actions to encourage a healthier work-life balance for their well-being?
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