Balancing Work And Personal Lives

Work Life Balance Student Name Course/Number Date Instructor Name Work Life Balance Work Life balance is a broad concept requiring prioritizing between work (job and career) and life (pleasure, family and health). The employees have to balance their professional and personal life to attain overall development and satisfaction. Work life balance doesnt mean that both the aspects of life should be given equal importance in terms of number of hours devoted per day. The same person may be satisfied and required to devote more attention to work one day and life the other.So, there is no quantitative definition of the balance that everyone strives for (Price, 2011). Now, if a company requires its employees to sacrifice their personal life for the job, this would mean that the company is imposing a different work and life schedule than what the employees desire. This will negatively impact the work life balance of the employees and would naturally cause them to resent. Such resentment causes high labor turnover, which in turn directly affects the productivity of the company negatively as well as its success. Clearly, if the company supports work life balance, by providing various benefits like flexi-time, sabbatical leaves, child care, job