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Why do we need work life balance tips

Why should Employers consider or establish work/life balance? It is vital that each organization should establish policies to balance work/life for their employees. To assist employees to achieve a good work life balance increases work satisfaction, increases their loyalty to their employer, and helps employers to achieve career longevity and employers will not lose experience employee so often. Also, it will increase productivity, lower absenteeism, and improve employee’s health and wellbeing.
There are many options for employers seeking to improve work/life balance for their employees. Whether the goal is to improve retention, avoid employee burnout, improve employee health, reduce absenteeism, or increase productivity. If employers are interested to work on work/life balance for everyone at their organization, there are many ways to improve it. The followings are some ways that can be implemented so to improve work/life balance:
Employers should offer the followings so to help employees achieve the goal of work/life balance:
Allowing work from home: With current modern technology, employee can work from home or remotely. All they need is a lab top to work remotely. It will save time for employees and avoid the long hours of commute back/forth to work.
Restricting working hours: This means employers will not allow their employees to work more than 7 hours daily and will not recommend after hours work so to avoid burn out.
Focus on being goal oriented: Employers should focus on high productivity doesn’t necessarily come in 8-hour segments. In other words, productive employees may get their work done efficiently, and not need to be at the worksite a full 8 hours every day.
Workplace culture: Employers should promote work/life balance in office. Encourage employees to take necessary breaks and train them to manage workloads so to avoid stress out in work place.
Promoting breaks  in the work day: Employer needs to encourage employees to take lunch breaks and rest breaks—taking breaks has been shown to actually increase productivity levels. Higher productivity means less need to work late.
Providing employees with work/life balance info: It is important to provide information about work/life balance to employees which will foster a better culture within the organization. This idea can result in employees taking better care to ensure this balance exists.
Providing childcare benefits: Employers can provide its employees discounts for childcare services/centers or it could be in the form of on-site childcare options. Either way, it will parents to less worry about their kids and remove some stress, which will enable to focus on their work and be productive.
Offering maternity/paternity leave: This is a major issue these days in the United States and/or other western countries. Parents love to have kids but they worry about losing their jobs. So, if the employers offer maternity/paternity leave, it will alleviate parent’s stress and will have a great positive impact on work place.
However, I have been working with an organization since six months that offers work/life balance. First thing that really helps all employees is the flexible working hours. We need to work for seven hours everyday and start time is from 8am to 10am. Our employer has given us the option to chose flex hours which is very helpful. The public transportation is unpredictable and anything can happen on way to office, delays in bus, trains and traffic jam and etc. Thus, it is so important for employers to offer flex hours in their organizations and it will alleviate many stresser.                                         
As conclusion, one can argue that offering flexible hours will allow employees more flexibility in what hours they work in a given day, employees can better manage their time around all obligations. Even some organizations offer make up hours. For instance, if an employee comes late an hour, he/she will be allowed to make up that hour by staying late..

Reference:
PowerPoints: Managing Work/Life Relationships in Organizations (review the three PowerPoint Presentations): https://www.shrm.org/academicinitiatives/universities/TeachingResources/Pages/AligningandManagingWorkLife.aspx
HR.com (2002). Managing Today’s Diverse and Dispersed Workforce—Integrated Technology can help you meet the challenge. Retrieved from: http://www.hr.com/SITEFORUM?&t=/Default/gateway&i=1116423256281&application=story&active=no&ParentID=1119278117389&StoryID=1119649134156&xref=https%3A//www.google.com/
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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