When AXA offers Alternate Fridays

Happy Friday everyone!! What's your plan for today after office?

Well, I don't need to wait until office hours to end as AXA offers us Alternate Fridays!!It's the first organization in Malaysia that offers this to their employees. Told you, we CARE

You must be wondering what above is all about. I'm so excited as today is my 1st Alternate Friday since I joined AXA on 18th Apr 2016. Let me share my personal experience for you to read on Friday morning as well as for you to think why U SHOULD BE JOINING US in AXA

Alternate Friday is where you work extra hours on 9 consecutive days and you will be off the next Friday. The extra hours is to cover the 1 day off ie alternate Friday. Meaning, you'll be off twice a month on Friday. Isn't that good? This is what we call as Thank God It's Friday (TGIF) or should I change it to Thank God It's AXA (TGIA) hehehehe

Now, let's put a serious note here. Talking from personal perspective.

Have you ever ask your parents, spouse, children or friends on how much they miss you when you're too busy working and you only have Saturday and Sunday which most of the weekend is spent for sleeping, running errands and staying at home. Have you ever think how happy your family is / how much they are looking forward for weekends just to spend time with you but in the end, you stay at home resting cz ur too tired working from Monday to Friday. They need to wait for our Annual Leave then only they can really spend time with you.

I admit I was in the above category as I have always been bz climbing up the ladder for my career and weekends will be the day which I will just stay at home and I rarely meet my friends during the weekend.

• I'm so fortunate since the day I joined AXA as I have more time to spend with my friends & family. Like today, I'm spending breakfast quality time with my parents(my parents are old and they tend to get tired if we are out in a shopping complex during weekends due to crowd hence today is a perfect day for them to have a good breakfast and shopping / massage session afterwards) and I still have additional 2  days more to spend time with!!!
• I also take the opportunity to send my sister to school. I can imagine how happy your children will be when you are the one who will be sending and picking  them up from school to have a good lunch - they must be running towards you the moment they see ur face and I believe they must be counting when will be your next Alternate Friday.
• When talking about friends, most of your friends have their own family commitment and we rarely see each other after graduation but with Alternate Fridays, I'm taking the opportunity to go out with my friends by visiting them at their office / have lunch together. I just feel so great doing so bcz at least I can catch up with them as they will definitely not be available during weekends.
• As for mothers,you might need your break, hence use this Alternate Fridays as the day to go shopping, facial, massage, salon etc.You don't have to fight with ur husband on taking turns to take care of your child as this is what we call as Women's right. So enjoy the day and try to be home before office hours ends (no Friday massive traffic to go through)
• For travelers, they will normally travel on Saturday morning and come back on Sunday (massive traffic) but with Alternate Fridays, this is the perfect timing for you to travel as the cost is much cheaper on Thursday nights and you can come back on Saturday instead. You can also save a lot and with the extra cash, you can even travel twice a month since you have 3 days long weekend every 2 weeks from Friday to Sunday.

Since I'm a Muslim, I always be guided by "Don't take things for granted. Spend as much time as you can with ur loved ones cz u will regret it later"

Overall, I'm thankful and glad that I chose AXA as I get to feel what life work balance is all about and my parents are excited too for my forthcoming Alternate Fridays.

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