Work-Life Balance
Group members
Yousaf Iqbal UW-12-ME-BSc-022
Ibtisam Arshad UW-12-ME-BSc-024
Zaheer Ahmad UW-12-ME-BSc-026
Shahrayar Jamali UW-12-ME-BSc-028
Hamid Saeed UW-12-ME-BSc-032
Tayyab Sarfraz UW-12-ME-BSc-034
Muhammad Abdullah UW-12-ME-BSc-036
Noman kamar Kiani UW-12-ME-BSc-038
Rizwan Malik UW-12-ME-BSc-042

AIM
The aim of this presentation is to brief you
about:
“What” is Work-Life Balance?
“How” to achieve Work-Life Balance?

Introduction
 It is harder than ever to keep up
with both your work and personal
activities.
 Activities and social spaces are
becoming ambiguous.

What is Work-Life Balance?
Work–life balance is a broad
concept including proper prioritizing
between:
 “work” (career and ambition)
AND
 “life” (Health, pleasure, family)

Never Ending Working Day
 There was a time when people reported
to work Monday through Friday and
worked 8 hour a day, how ever, present
day many jobs require employees to
work around 10-12 hours a day, not
providing enough time to balance the
life aspect of “Work-Life” Balance.
 Recent research says that more than
60% respondents are not able to find a
balance between their personal and
professional life.

Survey Results from USA
 2 out of every 5 employees are dissatisfied
with the balance between their work and
personal lives
 The lack of balance is due to:
Long work hours
Deterioration of boundaries between
work and home

Another Survey Results from Australia
 Research shows that 85 percent of
Australians who took leave over the 2009/10
Christmas/New Year period were accessible
to work.
 63 percent were available for work calls on
their mobile
 13 percent checked e-mails
 an unfortunate 9% percent used their laptop
to work remotely.

Causes for imbalance:
 Advanced communication technology:
Due to advance communication people
get work assignment at home so they spend
the family time also on work so work-life
imbalance occurs. Also due to advance
communication people spend their free time
on internet not their families.

Causes for imbalance:
 International business:
Work-life conflict may come from
organizational ideologies. Every
organization’s basic purpose is to
increase out come from man, machine
and money, this puts them in
competition with other international
organizations.

Causes for imbalance:
 Identity through work:
As in this era at organizational level
employees are identified with their work
so, to stabilize the identities people put
their full attention on work and work in
overtimes so they are unable to give time
to family. By this work-life imbalance
occurs.

Causes for imbalance:
 Flex-time schedules:
Flextime (also spelled flexitime [British
English], flexi-time) is a variable
work schedule, in contrast to traditional
work arrangements requiring employees
to work a standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day.
Allows full-time employees to choose
their individual starting and quitting times

Causes for imbalance:
 flexi-place work location:
Employees work remotely, allowing for
flexibility in the location of where work is
performed. An employee works from his
or her home office one day each week.

Causes for imbalance:
Dual-career:
One person works 2 part-time jobs, dual
career strategy. An employee works part
time for an equal number of hours in two
different departments.

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Allow for Time Off from Work
 A formal leave policy.
 Allow employees to take leave for
community service.
 Find a New Career
 Some careers are simply more stressful
and time-consuming than others.
 Explore careers that are less stressful and
more flexible

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Reduce commute time:
work from home arrangements help
individuals give optimum performance
while accommodating their personal
commitments. After all, ‘time at work’ is
more important than ‘time in office’.

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Break projects into manageable chunks:
You might have a fairly big project in
your lap that is causing major stress. The
best thing is to break it down. Instead of
trying to finish it as soon as you can. Aim
to spread it out.

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
Share the Load:
Even though we may sometimes feel
we’re the only ones capable of doing
something, it's usually not the case. Get
your partner or other family members to
help you with your responsibilities.

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Don’t Overbook
Don’t plan too many things
 Assume that only 50% of things you
plan for the day will actually get done

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Slow Down:
Take steps to stop and enjoy the things
and people around you. Find some ways
to distance yourself from the things that
are causing you the most stress

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Explore Your Options
 In many cases you do have options;
you just need to take the time to
explore them
 Don’t feel overwhelmed with your
family responsibilities
 Simplify
 It’s human nature to take on too many
tasks and responsibilities, to try to do
too much and to own too much.
 Find a way to simplify your life

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Learn to Say NO
One of the biggest land mines to
effective time management is
recognizing you don’t have to agree
with everything and with everyone.
Saying no to one thing opens the
door to saying yes to something else”

Solution to Work-Life imbalance
 Use technology but don’t overuse it
Part of effective time management is
knowing when to shut things down
Wireless means of communication
establishes boundaries

Symptoms of Work Life imbalance
 Exhaustion:
When you work long hours on a frequent
basis and fail to establish boundaries
between your work and home life, you
end up suffering from physical and
mental exhaustion. As a result, your
ability to think clearly and your eye-hand
coordination suffers.

Symptoms of Work Life imbalance
 Absence:
When you fail to establish boundaries
between your work and home life, you
end up missing important family events.
you miss unique moments, anniversaries
and birthdays. Your absence can really
damage your relationships with loved
ones and make them feel
unappreciated.

Symptoms of Work Life imbalance
 Poor health:
Stress is associated with adverse effects
on the immune system and can worsen
the symptoms you experience from any
medical condition. Stress also puts you at
risk of substance abuse.

Benefits to Organization
 Measured increase in productivity,
accountability and commitment.
 Better team work and communication.
 Improved morale.
 Less negative organizational stress.

Benefits to Individual
 More value and balance in daily life.
 Better understanding of work life
balance
 Increased productivity.
 Improved on-the-job and off-the-job
relationship.
 Reduced stress.

Benefits of Balanced Life
 A balanced life style boosts the sense of
responsibility and ownership.
 Build better relationship with
management.
 Builds confidence.

Final Thoughts
Celebrate your successes and don’t dwell
on your failures.
Find the correct balance
 Life is a process .. and so is striving for
balance in your life.

Conclusion:
 The key word is Balance….
 Find the right balance that works for
you.
Better relationship with management is
developed through balanced work-life
Stress is reduced by a considerable
margin

Thank You