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Here are few work life balance tips


The tangible and culture-related benefits of an organization that undertakes policies designed to help employees reconcile their professional and private lives are as follows:
For employees :
Reduce Job stress levels : with reduced stress, employees are more fulfilled, happier.
Increased job satisfaction: employees give their best to accomplish their tasks
A greater sense of job security: employees do not think about leaving one employee for another.
Better physical and mental health: employees are healthy
Enhanced control over work-life environment: Employees pay attention around them
Customer satisfaction: customers are satisfied, they are well treated.
Increase employee performance: The performance of employees is increasing.
For the company :
Improved productivity and motivation : There is more motivation among employees in their daily tasks.
Reduce employment turnover There is no need to hire people to fill the gaps created by those leaving the company.
Increased employee retention: employees stay with the company for a long time
Reduce absenteeism and lateness: employees are no longer absent for mundane reasons, and are on time to serve
Employee loyalty and commitment: Employees are loyal and dedicated.
Enhanced organization image: the company gives a better image
Employee time saved: the tasks are done on time, the employer wins in delay.
In my experience I worked for 12 years for the group TRAFIGURA , with the provision of BlackBerry / iPhone and laptops (with built-in 3G sim) that the company gave some employees , we had the opportunity to work from home, I also had some relaxations in the
schedules , in particular, I had the possibility to go to study my courses of CISCO during working hours and paid by the company .
The company also had a swimming instructor available for those who did not know how to swim, so they could enjoy these sessions in one of the pools of the guesthouse ; There was also provide a teacher to provide English classes for employees who wanted to learn two afternoon in the week for about 6 months.
In the same company in South Africa, every Friday traders had the Friday afternoon to play golf. During the 2010 World Cup held in South Africa , we were in our offices in Melrose ARCH at the time in Johannesburg and we had throughout the period, tickets to attend the games, we work until 10:15 am and at the parking , the bus was waiting for us to follow the matches and then bring us back after the match to finalize with our reports in the offices, for the matches in other cities like Durban, Bloemfontein , Port Elizabeth and Polokwane, there was our private jet He was waiting on the tarmac at Lanseria . Delegations from several countries of society from around the world were also invited per week to follow the matches during the 4 weeks of the tournament and all this at the expense of the company .
I felt supported and motivated to continue to do my job in a dedicated way, personally when I arrived at work, I arrange to finalize the files in a timely, documented and fast, in short I gave the best of me because I thought I could get more because I was doing a good job and I was not thinking about leaving the company with what they were proposing so that we could have some time learning something during the hours of service.
It was also the same feeling that prevailed around colleagues and the company kept many employees in it for many years yet it did not offer the best wages.
We were convinced that staying longer in this business would give us things that other companies do not necessarily give.
With this kind of treatment, employees feel supported, supported and attracted to society, they still give the best and stay longer as they are simply fulfilled in their daily lives.

I end my post by thanking all of you for this nice time we had in this course and a big special thanks to Dr. Kim who was an amazing support, we really learned a lot.
To my teammates, Good continuity for your studies and take care.


References

HR Daily Advisor (2016). How to Improve Work/Life Balance for Employees. Retrieved from: http://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2016/02/10/how-to-improve-worklife-balance-for-employees/
Yadav, T. (2015). Work life balance: challenges and opportunities. International Journal of Applied Research, 1(11), 680-684.
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