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.

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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.

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

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