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Work Life Balance

HRM has to make sure that employees are living with balance life. Work life balance meaning is on the job time and private time are arranged in optimal way with healthy, personal satisfaction, professional success without negative impact for productivity (Wigmore, 2014). Current situation in Sri Lanka, employees are living with high pressure because essential household items are not in the market to get easily, and prices are increasing daily. Daily electricity cut, fuel queue, gas queue, etc. Average has to stay in one queue more than 2 hours per item. With this situation, HRM has to more focus to provide solutions to save time for personal matters. Then employees are able to focus their job freely.


According to PESTEL, nowadays Organizations are struggling with political, Economic and legal issues in Sri Lanka. Even employees also suffering with economic. Then stress level is getting high. Employees are expecting to spend the time with their family after work is done. However, due to economic crisis in Sri Lanka, they have to spend more time for queue. For fuel, gas, and rice are unable to buy easily. Minimums have to spend 2hrs for queue. Then no time for family. Unfortunately, when they reached to home, electricity is cut. These incidents are increasing employees stress to maximum.

Because of this stress, employees won’t be able to focus for their office work properly. Even office time, their mind is processing to find options to complete family requirements. Then productivity is low.

HRM has to play out of the frame roll. In this incident, HRM has to find options to fulfil employee’s family commitments. Specially to save time. Then employees are able to spend more time with their family.

Utility bill Payment arrangements

Arrange a utility bill payment machine to work premises. Then employees are able to make the payment office time without any hassle. 
Electricity bills, water bills, telephone bills, mobile reloads and etc. are able to handle this machine.

Providing bank facilities

Able to utilize one of the clerks for this facility. Particular day in the week, this clerk will do the banking on behalf of employees. Employees are needed to provide relevant details to the clerk and clerk will go to bank. Then only one employee will spend the time for entire staff.

Grocery Shopping

This is the most time consuming and challenging event. If HRM can contact good retail shop that able to cover day to day essential grocery item, then this is able to initiate with below two options.

  • Set-up a stall in office premises

Then employees are able to the grocery shopping in office hours and that able to complete quickly. Further to save time, employee can provide requirement list morning hours and able to collect it evening.

  • Delivering to office premises

Employees are needed to provide list before 10am and member of grocery shop, will come to collect the list morning hours. Then able to deliver goods in the evening.

Apart from the time, HRM is able to negotiate better prices as well. It is because volume of the grocery items is high, and Organization is having high bargaining power.

Conclusion

Need to pay attention for employees after office life where Organization can make the influence. This influence is reverted to organization as a result of high productivity. Employees are always giving high priority to their family and un-balance family life will making chaos in employees mind. Unfocused mind never delivers good results.

References

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Lupu, I. & Castro, M. R., 2021. Harvard Business Review. [Online] 
Available at: https://hbr.org/2021/01/work-life-balance-is-a-cycle-not-an-achievement
[Accessed 23 April 2022].

Wigmore, I., 2014. Whatls.com. [Online] 
Available at: https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/work-life-balance
[Accessed 22 04 2022].

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Location: Piliyandala, Sri Lanka

Comments

  1. Venushka Bandaranayake30 April 2022 at 08:26

    Nicely written article on current situation of Sri Lanka and how it affect the work and personal lives of employees. Balancing work and the personal life is very important for the career progress as well. Good Luck.

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  2. Dimunge wasantha30 April 2022 at 10:23

    Unfocused mind never delivers good results. The people who, with Unbalanced life, their job role also unbalanced. then organizations are also unbalanced. The life & job role is most important to everyone. BC, the peoples are laying the half time with Families & organization. nice article
    Premakumara.

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  3. Darshana Undugodage7 May 2022 at 09:21

    In a dynamic world people are struggling to balance their personal life with work life. Managing their satisfaction level will directly effects their outcome. Well done.

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