Who needs Work-Life Balance?
Hisham Altaher
Group Director of People & Culture |Strategy | Change Management | HR Transformation l Governance
Who needs Work-Life Balance?
Work-life balance became a growing trend in the Business world in the last few years, what is work-life balance?
Work-life balance is an HR strategy to allow employees in balancing their work and their life outside working hours, so many initiatives such as flexible hours and working from home…etc. all come under work-life balance.
I’m a passionate advocate for work-life balance. With a focus on the LIFE part. Who needs work-life balance? What do you as an individual do in your free time??I don’t really believe in the word free time but will keep that discussion for another time.
The main purpose of work-life balance is to be involved in activities that can reenergize your body, soul, and mind in order to come back fresher and focused to give your 120 % at work and this will inevitably will help you grow
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Let’s take for example work from home policy, the main benefit of work from home policy is that you will save commuting hours let’s say from one to two hours a day.
So what do you do in your spare time? Are you reading, working out, meditating, networking, and having intellectual conversations with mentors and professionals in your industry??
Work-life balance was not made for Netflix, social media, and sleeping on the couch.?Life has way more than that if you stay focused on activities that develop your mental and physical health definitely you will perform better and grow and this is a work-life Balance
There are a lot of people that don’t plan their weekends around what makes them energized and happy so they come back to work on the weekends with the same mental and physical status if you fail to plan a weekend that you deserve and need that’s your ticket to burning out.
If you can’t plan a weekend and manage to have the best use of it how can you handle a work-life balance?
Do you Agree? Disagree?
Brand Management | P&L | Business | Channel Sales | Distribution | Retail | E-Commerce | Franchise | Modern Trade | Marketing | Channel & VM ops. | Expertise in CE/HA | Mobiles | IT Products | Accessories.
1 年True indeed...! To add to your really thoughtful analysis, the people who are making all this hue and cry about work life balance are the ones who still complain about not having time for their important works even when they are not working. So the solution to this problem is : "Do the job you love, Love the Job you do" If you love your job, you never complain about life. Onus is however on HR to hire and keep right candidate at right place to minimise this noise.
Experienced Sales and Retail Leader Brand Management | P&L | Channel Sales | Distribution | Retail Operation | E-commerce | Marketing
1 年You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it and No one on his deathbed ever said I wish I had spent more time at the office. ??