Work-Life Balance Programs: An Empirical Discussion of Employers’ Initiatives
Keywords:
Work-life Balance, Work-life Conflict, Work-life Balance ProgramsAbstract
Today, the ‘work-life balance’ is one of the serious considerations in ‘employer selection’ by the potential employees. The job seekers desire to work for organisations which are ‘family-friendly’. The changing family structure and soaring corporate expectations have made both family and work equally important for working individuals. As a matter of fact, the work-to-family and family-to-work spillover has become more common among the working class. These work and family tensions are exerting formidable impact on employee’s professional and domestic life. As a sequel, most organisations have experienced severe jolt on productivity and profitability front. Irked by these ill-effects, many organisations have accentuated on introducing family-friendly programs to tide over the problem of work-life conflict. This empirical study covered 81 employees from three new generation private sector banks in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka. The organizations under study practices 9 different work-life balance programs to help employees balance their work-life. Most of the respondents agree that organisation recognizes and understands their family responsibilities and the work-life balance program offered by their organization ‘somewhat’ help them in balancing both work and personal life.
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