Healthy Working Environment = Work-life Balance

By Author: Fides Abigail Daroya
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Adam Neumann quoted “How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.” Almost everyone needs to work and they spend practically 8-10 hours a day or more in the workplace. It is their second home where life revolves and it is where every employee is a key part of business success. Therefore, every employee should be feeling that next level of happiness where he is motivated about his job and being able to feel that he is part of the accomplishment. The challenge now is how to strike balance in managing time for priorities that matter to an employee.

Life is like a game and an individual has to play with work, family, health, friends, and spirit. The concept of work-life balance is not new but with the changing pace of life and increase in stress levels, negatively affecting the quality of work, has made many companies think about the strategies for maintaining a work-life balance. Work-life balance is a choice an individual has to make. However, it is the organization that needs to take an initiative to help the employees. Today, an ...
... employee is looking for an employer not just for a job but they want the company to care for their work-life balance and their well-being. If a company addresses these needs, in addition to providing great career opportunities, they can be very successful in providing job satisfaction to the employee.

There is also a perception that work and personal life as two compelling priorities that are impossible to balance. An employee can be effective to one but fail to deliver to the other. But aside from work and personal life, there are also other facets/dimensions of an individual’s life that needs attention and time such as Spiritual, Health, Family, Friends, and Service. An employee’s life should not only be confined to work and family. Work-life balance should be supported by the rest of the dimensions.

Every company should contribute to the principle of shared objectives and shared responsibility in attaining its Goals, Vision, and Mission. It should not just provide the employees with their needs but more so enhancing work, team effectiveness, managing balance between work and life and responding to employee’s life greater needs. Work-life balance programs and activities must provide assistance to help employees balance the inherent tension in both work and life.

Creating a balance between work and life will be really hard at first but once you get a hang of it, everything will go smoothly in your life and in your career. For me, I found working online as a good avenue for work-life balance so I enrolled in the courses of Filipino Virtual Assistance. Balance is the key! Do it now!