Striking A Balance Between Work And Personal Life

BALANCING WORK AND PERSONAL LIFE

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All work and no play makes one a dull person. In other words, health is wealth. Presently, in organisations, we witness a fast-paced working culture, and as a result, most times, people tend to forget that our bodies are not firewood. We need to strike a balance between work and personal life.

Employees At The Workplace

In Organisations, there is annual leave and paid vacations structured to ease stress, yet some workers will go as far as selling off these leave days to gain more money at the expense of their health. Sometimes, just like a planted bomb, it will boomerang and hit such workers badly. Worst still, in that sick moment, the company quietly moves on with relief workers while the employee groans in pain. This is too bad.

When I joined my current organisation, I learnt how employees sell their leave to the company and how it turns against them through incessant ill health. It also affected the organisation because we found out through constant data analysis how absenteeism due to ill health was skyrocketing, affecting production and productivity. I reviewed the policy with the approval of the management and the board and stopped the menace. The result was a happier and healthier environment that is free from constant ill health. There was also a significant improvement in production and productivity.

Human needs are evolving, and as a result, people tend to neglect their health at the expense of work, lack of quality time with friends and family, and not eating right or even exercising, leading to stress, an unhappy mood, incessant breakdowns, and sometimes a busy life without achievement.

Additionally, it is important to maintain a balance between work and personal life to avoid poor productivity, clustered living, depression, and lack of creativity. Organisations are offering hybrid roles and remote work to support work-life balance; other technical apps and tools like Teams, Canva, Power BI, and others have assisted the workplace to evolve to encourage work-life balance.

Spending Quality Time With Family

We can practically achieve a work-life balance by creating and respecting work and personal life boundaries, setting a time to work and also time to relax with family and loved ones, exercising ourselves, eating right, going on vacations, and having a health check-up after each annual leave to determine the status of our health before returning to work.

When we do all these things, we not only maintain a balance between work and personal life but also live happier, healthier, and achieve a productive career life.

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