Work Life Balance-Myth or Reality???
Work Life Balance as the name suggests is the division of one's time and focus between working and family or leisure activities.
In true sense "Work” and “life” aren’t separate — and we should embrace a notion of “work-life balance” that understands their interconnectivity. Both work and home require our best selves, says Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo.
But the problem is that "Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.”-Alexander Kjerulf. And the grave reality is that "Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."-Stephen R Covey.
“The idea of ‘work-life balance’ suggests we should check our family lives at the door when we arrive at the office and leave our work behind when we head home that work and family are two separate ledgers in zero-sum competition with each other. But we know from experience that's not the way the world works.”
Personally I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work at the same time and feel a lot can be learnt from them !! The art of having a work-life balance is a trick, rather a skill that we all should continously thirve to learn & master as a human being. Life may be a burden of worries, but there is a way to keep our loved ones untouched from these worries.
https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-our-careers-affect-our-children..........
My Aunt from spain shared with me a message on worklife balance which adresses the topic very beautifully.
link:https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6400982876418084864/
What's your take? Do let me know your Views in the comment section they are most welcome & it would be my pleasure to keep editing it again and again with your valuable point of view, inputs,thoughts,etc.
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6 年It is definitely time to remember quote from His Excellency Late Shree APJ Abdul Kalam ''“Love your job?but don’t love your company,?because you may not know?when your company?stops loving you.” If you just implement? this, automatically you have achieved balance between two.
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6 年Good idea for Amazon. This will help them. Some polite questions to Amit: 1. What time will he be leaving office and shutting mails until tomorrow? (Honest answer please)? 2. As a corollary will all employees' cell phones, (including Amit's) be collected at the entry point and returned at the time of leaving work. Obviously, it has to work both ways.? If employees don't have to touch work after working hours, they should bot be touching their personal phones during day time. They can be contacted over landlines. 3. Setting a standard for whom? Amzaon employees or the nation in general? If its only Amzaon I have no issues, but for rest of country where a good percentage of employees don't work full 8 hours a day, (visit any govt. office) what other option does the employer have than asking for the days deliverable completed - no matter when? 4. Are we really leveraging technology, and ability to answer effortless questions in the evening which require no big effort but can save hours on the following day? Then why not resort to Land Line and Telex Era.? just asking .... ( I support work life balance)?
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6 年Good to see business focusing on the quality and welfare of employees outwith working hours and on holiday. Finally are we aware of the levels of burnout of our workforce and need for a harmonious work/life balance. Consideration forb flexible working, suits lifestyle requirements and nature of business within a global outreach. All things in balance. Thank you for tagging me
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6 年https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6432911751687303168? Amazon is setting benchmark by creating a work culture that promotes work life balance :)?? What's your take on it ??? Oleg Vishnepolsky Vartika Kashyap Brett S. Brody Amer Kayyal Fathima Afra Dana Horton Shalini.K. Uttam Sharath Patil Lt Col Prasad S N, Ph.D Kaushik Bandopadhyay Bob I Saad Wajid Ramesh Kumar Ravinder Bhan Yogesh Thite Cory Warfield Hartej Singh John Quinn Sandeep Gupta Luke Houlahan Bijay Majumdar Navdeep Chahar Seetal Singh Jasrotia Blazej Kulinski Naveen Kashyap Rishabh Chauhan
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6 年Really liked ur concept too good ????