Work-Life Balance (WLB) is all about the need for individuals having complete control over their work, i.e., deciding when, why, where and how to work. Finding these pressures encroaching into their private life and time, they are unable to do anything about it and are finally squeezed out. Organizations should consider WLB as an extension of the fringe benefits offered to the employees. This will help both the employees and the organizations.

Work-life balance is all about the individuals having a complete control of work. It is not only the money that drives the employees for better productivity, but there are also other things the organizations should look into. Meaningful work, pursuit of leisure activities and ideal private life leads to self-fulfillment at the workplace. The HR department should engineer the above conditions at the workplace. The employees are concerned about several things in the private life and some of them are very important and sensitive.

These need the attention of the employees and some of them need that of the oganization too. The change in lifestyle of the society and the priorities and career plans of the individual are setting new trends and demands in life. The "sum" of the work situations are time bound, target bound and result oriented the individual is unable to have an ideal private life. Spending enough time at home with wife, children, parents, relatives and friends is as important as being at the workplace. Afterall, one is working for a happy living. So, what can be done from the HR's perspectives that one is happy both work and in private life too.

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