Jobs are getting increasingly demanding, as the organizations face competition and become leaner in structure, leading to conflict between people's professional deliverables and personal requirements. It is acknowledged that continuous disregard of personal issues ultimately lead to employee's underperformance and so people often discuss Work-Life Balance (WLB) but seldom act on it. So, the focus now is "who is going to bell the cat?". For tackling the problem, multi-Pronged effort, comprising the organization, the employee, the government, the industry, the society, etc., is required.

Resource! Any resource tempts us to squeeze out the for optimum utilization from it. But a word of caution!—The resources, viz., materials, money, machine and man, if not properly managed, may lead to a collapse of the system. Materials, or basic raw input of the business, are often scarce and shall lead to higher cost of acquiring if not effectively utilized. The most significant role of business is to create wealth—so if money matters are not tackled efficiently, the basic foundation of business is shaken. In case of inputs, as long as their proper availability is ensured, the machine will continue to produce the prototype product.

But when it comes to man, another essential input for an organization's productivity, there becomes drastic change to recognize. Certainly, the individual works to meet his own financial needs, but that's not the only reason. There are many other needs and desires to be taken care of. As the business environment becoming more and more competitive and the organizations are getting leaner in structure, the jobs are becoming more demanding. The individuals are facing conflict between interest of the meeting professional business matrices and their personal reasons for taking up a job.

The more the industry is expanding its operation the more the conflict is deepening. The focus in business is on efficient implementation and such high pressured work environment forces the individuals to neglect decisions relating to their personal life.

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