Promoting Work-life Balance in the Workplace: A Tool for Attraction, Productivity and Retention of Employees

Abstract

Balancing an employee’s personal and professional life is indeed a very challenging thing. Juggling his day to day activities with that of his side duties at home usually lead to life “imbalances”. Highlighting his responsibilities as an employee of the company, these imbalances usually affect his mental, emotional, spiritual and financial aspects of life. Because of these, an employee may not able to perform at his best that also becomes detrimental to organizational success. Efficiency and effectiveness of employees and that of the company per se are the primary concerns of organizational leaders. This is more than a work-schedule concern, additional paid leaves or telecommuting. This is more of giving much emphasis on the things a person believed to be more important for him/her. If companies would support this so-called “employee priority”, a win-win result, both for the company and the employee will surely emerge. Supporting the James Clear’s assumption on the Four-Burner Theory, the main objective of the study is to prove that promoting work-life balance in the workplace is a tool for attraction, productivity and retention of employees regardless of their gender preferences and age groups.