Work Life Balance

Work-life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which will enable employees to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen employee loyalty and productivity. 

Long work hours and highly stressful jobs not only hamper employees’ ability to harmonize work and family life but also are associated with health risks, such as increased smoking and alcohol consumption, weight gain and depression. Work life conflict has been associated with numerous physical and mental health implications. 

There are a wide variety of practices currently being used to help employees achieve work-life balance. It is important to note that some work-life balance programs help employees handle stress and otherwise cope more effectively while other programs help to reduce the absolute stress levels by rebalancing work life.

Some companies undertake initiatives to improve employees’ healthy eating habits. Others offer stress management programs which include stretching, yoga, counseling, as well as bringing in Registered Massage Therapists to work. 

 Reverse Migration- Many people finding solution to balance work & life is Migrating from large cities to smaller one.

Wilfried Aulbur, managing partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, has just completed a major project -- he's moved the headquarters of his firm out of Mumbai. The German firm still keeps a small office in the country's commercial capital, but many of its consultants, including Aulbur, have now relocated to Pune. Since it operates in the manufacturing space, Roland Berger has several clients in Pune's industrial belt, but Aulbur's decision is not based on business imperatives alone.  The shift to Pune will provide work-life balance," he says.

Read more at- 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/27658860.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Bhavesh Soni was born and raised in Mumbai, but abandoned the maximum city and moved to Vadodara in search of a quieter, better life. His 25-km commute to work took him two hours in Mumbai; it's now a 10 minute drive in Vadodra.

Read more at-

  

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-11-08/news/43822467_1_serco-global-services-bpo-smaller-towns 

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The glass is half full or half empty!!!

Whether the glass is “half full or half empty “is not just about Optimism & pessimism- It’s about how different people relate to the world and each other- in different jobs, roles, and situations- in different ways. 

Even more interestingly 'the glass half-full/empty' quotes demonstrate how different people see the same situation in different ways. This idiom is used to explain how people perceive events and objects. 

You will perhaps have heard very old story illustrating the difference between positive thinking and negative thinking:  

Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report back on market prospective. 

The first salesman reported back, "There is no potential here - nobody wears shoes.
"The second salesman reported back, "There is massive potential here - nobody wears shoes."

This simple short story provides one of the best examples of how a single situation may be viewed in two quite different ways - negatively or positively.

 We could explain this also in terms of seeing a situation's problems and disadvantages, instead of its opportunities and benefits. When telling this story its impact is increased by using exactly the same form of words (e.g., "nobody wears shoes") in each salesman's report. This emphasizes that two quite different interpretations are made of a single situation.

There are however now lots more examples of different human viewpoints and attitudes, reflected cleverly and amusingly in the long list of adapted versions (below) of the traditional glass half-full or half-empty metaphor.

The optimist says the glass is half full

The pessimist says the glass is half empty.

The project manager says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

The realist says the glass contains half the required amount of liquid for it to overflow.

And the cynic... wonders who drank the other half.

The engineer says the glass is over-designed for the quantity of water.

The magician will show you the glass with the full half at the top.

The psychiatrist would ask you, "Is the half-empty/half-full glass really that important? I mean... really? Think about it. If fact, let's not. Let's set that particular issue aside for a few moments and talk about what's really bothering you.


The opportunist says, "Thanks, folks! While you were debating it, I drank it."

The worrier frets that the remaining half will evaporate by next morning.

The waiter will hurry to replace the glass with a full one. For him there are no doubts: the glass was empty when he took it away; it is full in the bill that he brings you.

The physicist says that the glass is not empty at all - it is half-filled with water and half-filled with air - hence, fully filled on the whole!

This point - that different people see one situation in different ways - is central to what we look for to learn and teach, in life and work.


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