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What is it?
A satisfactory level of involvement between the multiple roles in a person’s life
the proper prioritizing between "work" (career and ambition) on one hand and "life" (family, pleasure, leisure and spiritual development) on the other.
"lifestyle balance" and "life balance” It does NOT mean equal balance in units of
time between work and life.A balance between work and life is supposed
to exist when there is proper functioning at work and Personal Life.
IT Industry
Information Technology Industry is fast growing sector long working hours and work overload are typical of the
IT industry Most of the IT firms have a five-day week After the 2001-02 slumps, companies that downsized, did
not always hire more people after business picked up. Being called to work on weekends and 14-hour working
days have become synonymous with the sector. IT executives suffer from deep feelings of inferiority
owing to factors such as working during nights and not really using their soft skills. The skewed work-life balance affects their health and family life.
IT Industry
When compared to the manufacturing sector, I.T. Industry includes all knowledge based activities. Both men and women are attracted by this rising sector for the lucrative pay. But this
Job requires profound contribution at job environment psychological attachment of mind good physical fitness Pressure to complete the task in time due to cut throat
competitions Work for both Indian and foreign companies/clients/projects
which need different work climate, timings etc., which leads to work life imbalance in this sector
Work life balance of the women employees is really a challenge
Present Scenarios
Problems
Health Issue
Societal issues
Work Timing
Workload
Stress
Personal issues
Perform
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Night Shifts
Frustration
Eyesight Problems
DepressionDigestive System Related ProblemsSleeping Disorders
Overtime Travel Time
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Work-life conflict in IT industry
Project deadlines: variability of workflow You look at releases going out into the marketplace when
we would have people who were working 24 hours at times, wrongly. Similarly in some of the shared service centre’s, people are closing the books at the end of the month, they might work for 18 hours at a stretch.
Rapid response to client system emergencies
In IT companies [as customers], they’re demanding and expect top notch service and whenever there’s a problem they’ll ring, say quarter past six.
Work-life conflict in IT industry
Evening and weekend working as part of financial cycle
People who are leading sales revenue in IT, you essentially have no
life for the last month of any quarter and you have absolutely no life for the last six weeks of your financial year.
Ongoing need to maintain relevance of skills:Conference and seminar attendance There’s definitely pressure
becauseeverything’s changing so fast, things that I learned in college
will prettymuch have no relevance any more you know. There’s a pressure
to keep -up your skill level
How to Balance Work and Life?
Solutions?
Innovative Approach by Microsoft
work while you travel to office
The software firm provides three options to work from home which include flexible scheduling, teleworking and part-time basis.
o Flexible scheduling is when an employee has the option of working from home for a few of his business hours on a recurring basis.
IBM’s New Mantra: Work from home
IBM’s New Mantra: Work from home
Tele-working lets one to choose a schedule of days to work from home.
Part-time is when an employee clocks in only a few hours for work.
Cisco (a Networking equipment maker) says employee location is increasingly losing meaning in an interconnected world.
It creates an office with email and intranet-enabled smart phones, provides Cisco Virtual Office equipment, laptops and data cards for employees who do not wish to be within the office walls.
A Work-Life Balance Initiative by Infosys
A online Portal :Which give employees a platform to ask
questions and discuss their views with others about their experiences as working parents.
The network is designed to provide parenting counseling demystify work life balance policies
The portal also provides useful information about schools, day care facilities and doctors etc
Mr. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys says: “The initiative is to ensure that parents amongst Infoscians are in a position to contribute effectively to the growth of Infosys by helping them strike the best balance between work and life”.
This portal is Launched in India and will soon be expanded to the US, UK and Australia.
A Work-Life Balance Initiative by Infosys
A Work-Life Balance Initiative by HCL
"In our company there's diversity based on age, gender, culture and geographies. It then becomes important to take democracy into account," says Srimathi Shivashankar, associate vice-president, diversity and sustainability, at HCL Tech. Consider the concept of a peer coach to advice on issues ranging from managing angry bosses to tackling family feuds, and employees can approach one anytime.
The company has also outsourced its counseling process to trained counselors, who are available 24X7 over the phone.
Another interesting initiative is the WLB (work-life balance) Chat that is conducted every alternate Friday on the company intranet where anyone can come forward and deliberate on unofficial topics and exchange ideas. E.g.: What are some of the household activities that
women should outsource?
A Work-Life Balance Initiative by HCL
Benefits:
Flexi timings for job hoursRotation in shift timingsFree Health Checkup
Benefits
24/7 operationsYoung, smart and talented workforceWorld-class, state-of-the-art facilitiesWorld-class training to learn new skills, new
knowledge and enable high performanceBuilding global careers – much faster than
most other industriesEmployee satisfaction
Benefits
Striking the right balance amongst the personal life, professional life and social life is essential
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all
Thank You
