WORK-LIFE

BALANCE

BY: Syed Muhammad Jawwad-ACMA,APFA

Partner-Taxation and Corporate Affairs

Insight Business Consultants

jawwad@ibcs.com.pk

03212271302

www.ibcs.com.pk

WORK LIFE BALANCE

• Priority questions

• Introduction

• Balancing life

• Desire work

• Issues

• Strategies For Work Life Balance

• Conclusion

Presentation Plan

Priority QuestionsGive priorities

If most important point 3

If important point 2

If just give priority point 1

What do you prefer?

Education

Career

Family

Health

Spiritual/Religion

Pleasure

INTRODUCTION

• Work–life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) on one hand and “life” (Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other. Related, though broader, terms include “lifestyle balance” and “life balance”

WORK/JOY/PRAYER/FAMILY

DESIRE WORK

• Work is about a search for daily meaning as

well as daily bread, for recognition as well as

cash, for astonishment rather than torpor, in

short, for a sort of life – rather than a

Monday through Friday sort of dying…”

Studs Terkel

ISSUSES

− Personal – non work

− Career

− Material wealth

− Health

− Learning

− Spiritual / Cultural

Reasons Why Staff Leave

Their Jobs

• Staff leave organisation for many reasons such as career advancement, better job opportunities and retirement, these departures may be difficult to prevent.

• However, another reason staff leave their jobs, particularly women is to find a better work life balance.

• These include flexible working hours, time off or leave arrangement, a lack of access to suitable childcare arrangement.

• Undue stress and tension in the workplace which make working life more difficult and unpleasant.

Strategies For Work Life

Balance

• DEMOGRAPHICS: According to Australian bureau of statistics in 2001, one in three working adults suffer from work- related stress.

• In the world of globalization, economic rationalization, downsizing and longer shift hours there is no getting away from stress, it is the way you deal with it that counts.

• Getting the balance right is a challenge to every organsation and individuals.

Strategies For Work Life

Balance For Employers

• It is the responsibility of all employers to protect their employees to

achieve a better balance between work, family and life commitments.

• This can be achieved by creating a positive work life balance”

thinking” by treating staff as adults who are balancing their work

with commitments.

• Be positive about making flexible changes in the work place in all

aspects of employee relations.

• Create a work life balance policy which enable all employees to

balance work and family responsibilities..

Retention and Attraction

Strategy

• To retain staff and better work life, there is need to provide:

• Flexible working hours and consultative rostering arrangement to all

employees including managers and supervisors.

• Flexible leave arrangements and purchased leave as well as extended

leave without pay.

• Introduce leave in single days.

• Increase job mobility within wards and transfer between hospitals,

work areas and health services

• Improving safety wellbeing and respect for all employees in

workplace

Conclusion

• To keep our life balance in all aspects such as

work,love,health,pleasure,family and career

• Must use of time as its most valuable resource

• Managing stress

• The need to provide flexibility, awareness and

respect

Questions

& Comments