Lifestyle in Balance

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

Thirty-eight percent of Americans report some tension between their work and home lives. Today’s highly publicized work/life balance conflicts are multiple, and their nature differs significantly depending on the jobs individuals have and on their family situations. Tensions between work and family life clearly have implications for the well-being of individuals and their children and ramifications for society in general. Yet because the personal needs, desires, motivations, and economic circumstances of Americans are so varied, there appears to be no single way to resolve these tensions, no universal best practices with regard to work/life balance. For example,

We’ve looked at work from many different views in this class. From the bottom in Mike Roses book, Mind at Work which looks at the, on the jobsite skills and intelligence needed in the work force. Along with the way our society and education play a role in that. And then there was the middle working class view by journalist and author Barbara Ehreinch and her book Nickel and Dimed, which saw a middle class person look at the low wage lifestyle of Americans, and her failed attempt to live off wages. It ended up very one sided and controversial since it was a wealthier person trying to look in on a subject they could never understand. But one thing that I never really felt or saw either one really look at is the connection between work and life balance they only looked at the different aspects of work and those factors. But I feel there was a factor left out and it is life, family, personal aspects.

We are very fortunate in America to live in a free society. We can chose to take advantage of the freedom we have and make a life that we were designed to live in the job we were designed to do. Or we can sit on the sidelines and complain about the lot we were cast and become miserable old curmudgeons who have no true friends and die mostly alone.

I believe that we can ‘have it all at the same time.’” (Dorment 699). However, the reason why men and women cannot have it all because they have work and life same time. Richard said, “Entirely lost in this debate is the growing strain of work-life balance on men, who today are feeling the competing demands of work and home as much or more than women. And the truth is as shocking as it is obvious:

Each persons work/life balance is different because we each have our own priorities and lives. To have a good balance between work and life doesn’t mean you need to schedule an equal amount of hours in each day between the two. It means to have a

It is imperative that the employee can balance his/her working life against his/her personal life. With sufficient time off and rest periods, employees will feel “looked after” and be motivated to put in more effort. There will be a reduction of mistakes because the employee has had adequate rest which results in a more positive working environment. Employers who introduce such practices in the work place in order to help employees achieve a better and satisfactory work/life balance can expect to see an increase in motivation, enhanced performance/productivity and greater staff loyalty. By implementing a positive work/life balance, companies are successful, secure a good reputation and promote positive employee relations. The Working Time Regulations 1998 stipulates that employers should provide employees with the following basic rights:

Ms. Isabel Rimanoczy made great points in this article. Though some may view her as a work body, she and I share a mutual understanding when it comes to work-life balance. Ms. Rimanoczy is not buying the idea that there is some sort of balance between the two aspects of our lives. “Work-life balance is dead” and it may be a good thing” (Rimanoczy, 2015). I agree with her statement because if anyone takes the time to think about it, they will soon come to terms with the idea that it really becomes impossible to separate work and personal life. Some of us grow up with moral values, standards, and family traditions carried on through religious beliefs. When we go to work we will bring along our character because our personal life defines us as

In today’s world many people are trying to balance their work and their personal life which can be a huge challenge. There have been studies showing that having a poor work life balance can cause an unhealthy level of stress; unhappiness and it can actually reduce productivity. Also many people suffering from poor work life balance can find it impacts their relationships and ability to actually enjoy and value their lives.

Living a LivFit Lifestyle is just that, a lifestyle. Forget trying to diet or thinking you "can't" eat certain foods. A minder of deprivation will get you nowhere fast. Rather, think of what you "get" to eat to shed fat and get in shape.

According to a recent Pew Center Research report, degree holders enjoy higher annual earnings, a lower unemployment rate and are much less likely to live in poverty. While there are many other benefits to getting a degree, the educational process can also be hectic, time consuming and stressful. Below explains five ways to have a stable lifestyle while earning your degree.

In the 1990s, work/life balance caught the attention of researchers, policymakers, and employers, resulting in the development of a range of employment benefits, legislation, and programs aimed at helping people cope. Life management or family/career management curricula emphasize coping through the development of skills in communication, interpersonal effectiveness, and money, time, stress, and household management (e.g., California Community Colleges 1998; Mathieson 1999). As Caproni (1997) notes, research, policy, and practice focused on work/life balance have raised important issues and brought about changes that have benefitted some families. However, these approaches are incomplete in several ways.

Almost every person at some point in his/her life will feel that overwhelming, exhausted, there are not enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done feeling. It is a very common feeling that most people are all too familiar with and it often comes more than one desires. In today’s society it has almost become the norm to feel this. It has become what is expected if an employee is doing his/her job right and working their hardest. If one wants to keep his/her job they had better prove it by working longer hours and producing more than the guy next door. In a Harvard Business School survey an astounding ninety four percent of working professionals said that they worked more than fifty hours per week and almost half of them said that they worked more than sixty-five hours in a week. The experts agree that this immense stress from these never-ending workdays is harmful to people’s lives. It can damage relationships, overall happiness and health. For most people this all sounds way too familiar and they wonder if there is such a thing as a “work-life balance”, or is it all just a myth?

Nowadays many people manage to apply a broad methodology in running their own career under a preferable time-frame. There are wider approaches on having an ideal working system that could enable the best practice of working which leads toward an excellent outcome. Many industries continue to the nine to five work hours whilst others prefer flexitime. The 9-5 job is still very familiar with some industries. However, the balance in dealing with career and family life is an issue that concerns both employees and industries. Employees who have a balance between career and life are likely to be more satisfied with their life rather than those who only focus on work. Therefore, work and life balance would greatly enable productivity and ensure an employment arrangement that enables positive office morale. One of the best ways to enable employees to reach a good balance between career and family life is through flexitime. Hawks explained flexitime as “a work schedule that requires employees to be present for predetermined core hours but allows them the flexibility to vary the rest of their schedule based on their needs and preferences” (2014, para. 2). Flexible schedule originated in Germany in 1967 (Ministry of Manpower, 2001). It aimed to mitigate the commuting issue and in 1972, being introduced to the United States by the Hewlett-Packard Company (Stafco, 2014). Flexitime is widely known as a flexible work option. This system involves 40 hours of a work week, but these hours

We should become aware of and reflect on nature. We should also practice restraint to protect nature. The need for balance within our lives and nature is crucial for the world to remain sane. Practicing restraint is important to the survival of the earth. Sanders explains the need to for rest within your life in order to maintain balance.