51% Of Employees Want Better Work-Life Balance, Says Report

Krishnendra Joshi Apr 13, 2023

Shivani is a senior management executive working in a top corporate organisation for more than 20 years.

For many professionals like her, getting into senior leadership positions has not been easy simply because corporates demand consistency and maintaining work-life balance can be tough especially if you are a woman employee in a senior role.

In Shivani's case, she is a mother of two young girls and feels a greater degree of pressure to maintain a work-life balance. By her own admission achieving a work-life balance required her to prioritize things and make constant adjustments. Midway through her career, she realised that no one can have it all. There are some occasions when work takes precedence over the family she says. However, family support has proved crucial for her in climbing up the ladder.

Take the case of Manoj, a millennial who works in a night shift job in an edtech company because the company requires him to attend to late-night sales queries along with his routine KRA. This hardly leaves Manoj with spare time other than catching up on sleep.

Corporate jobs are generally demanding and don't leave people with the desired spare time. But once the hybrid work model became part of our work and life, the way companies and their employees look at work has evolved. Discussions on workflow designs, and 4-day work weeks have been floating around for quite some time now. Needless to say that Covid 19 has made people re-align their priorities.

If numbers give an indication, a survey done by Mercer says that 51% of employees feel the future of work is about balance in life.

Then one finds a large chunk of passionate people who don't consider work to be a separate component of their life. For them, finding meaning in life is crucial to a fulfilling life and the work they do adds value to their lives disproportionately.

Ultimately it all boils down to how much people love the work they do. As they say, people make time for the aspects of their life they are passionate about.