This presentation suggests how to balance your work and life. What are the impacts of imbalance and how to ensure perfect balance between your office-work and family life.

1. Work-Life Balance Issues
-How to deal with it
Presented By
Sandipan Samaddar
New Delhi Institute of Management

2. “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you
are satisfied by life!”
- Heather Schuck
(Founder & CEO of Glamajama)

3. Definition
Work-life balance is about
effectively managing the
juggling act between paid work
and other activities that are
important to us - including
spending time with family,
taking part in sport and
recreation, volunteering or
undertaking further study

5. Components of Work-Life Balance
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Self-Management
Time Management
Stress Management
Change Management
Technology Management
Leisure Management

6. Effects of Imbalance
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If you are working more than fifty-five hours a week, you are
out of balance. You are putting at risk at least five very
important assets :
Your health
Your family
Your friends
Your effectiveness
Your example

7. Case Study
• Marissa Mayer’s job as the CEO of
Yahoo and her pregnancy was
announced simultaneously
• She took a maternity leave of only
2 weeks
• Ban the company’s work-from-home
policy
• Construction of a nursery next to her
office for her four month old son

8. Ways to perfect work-life balance
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Critique yourself
Knock out big tasks first
Create a schedule
Avoid interruptions
Turn-off autopilot
Learn the power of saying “no”
Perspective
Know when you are done

9. Work-Life Benefits in Organizations
More than 100 varieties of work/life programs are provided
by organizations that fall into the following categories:
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Time
Leave
Benefits
Dependant Care
Counseling and Wellness
Personal Convenience

10. Case Studies on Work-Life
Balance in Large Organizations

11. Case Study 1 :
Health Promotion at IKEA

12. Background:
• Swedish home furnishing retailer
• IKEA’s dream is “to create a better everyday life for the many
people.”
• The Swedish national values of commitment to, and time
with, family and community, combined with concern for a
healthy environment, are strongly reflected in IKEA’s
organizational culture and management practices
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Health Promotion:
Health promotion program in IKEA’s Glasgow store
Subsidized healthy meals from the popular public cafeteria
free podiatry and massage sessions during work time.
A range of fitness and occupational health activities during
the “Fit for Week” week

13. Outcomes :
• Increases morale and commitment by improving psychological
contracts
• Employees feel that the company cares about them as
individuals and, as a result, gives them a greater sense of
loyalty
Learning Points :
• Work-life balance is tied closely to organizational culture
• Work-life balance is not just about flexibility in work for life
outside work, it also works the other way around
• The best way to engage more people in work-life balance
programs is to let co-workers who have experienced it
advocate it by word-of-mouth

14. Case Study 2:
Career Breaks in Lothian and
Borders Police Service in
Edinburgh, Scotland

15. Background :
• LBP employs 2,600 police officers and 1,100 support staff
• The special diversity unit ensures work-life balance of
employees from different ethnic group
• The current work-life balance arrangements for which
employees in LBP can individually apply are:
- Flex time
- Job sharing
- Full-time or part-time work
- Special shift arrangements
- Career breaks
- Study leave
- Care leave
- Sick children leave
- Sports achievement leave

16. Career Break :
• Employees can take break from their services pursuing higher
qualifications
• Breaks are offered on valid personal reasons
• Help to retain people with key skills, reduce turnover, employ
more part-time staff and respond to fewer requests for
transfers
Learning points :
• Benefits the organization, as the employee come back with
added qualities
• Management style is a central part of work-life balance, so it
needs continuous development and support
• Work-life balance has to be a balance between what the
organization needs and what the individual needs

17. 5 Tips for better Work-Life Balance
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Build downtime into your schedule
Drop activities that sap your time or energy
Rethink your errands
Get moving
Remember that a little relaxation goes a long way

18. Conclusion
In order to ensure work-life balance, one has to consider the
following questions:
• How much time needs to be set aside for work and how much
time needs to be reserved for yourself?
• How much time does you family need from you?
• Can you meld your personal relaxation time in with family
time, or do you need to separate them?
Decide what you need to recharge your batteries, and be
honest!

19. “Never become so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life…!!”

20. Thank You