Work Life Balance

The leader of any successful company will tell you that a work-life balance is good for corporate wellness; a reputation of putting employee wellbeing first increases morale, yields superior work and attracts the best talent in the market.…

What would it take for your work-life balance to achieve corporate wellness? Shorter hours? More money? Not according to new research, as a survey has found that working shorter hours or earning a higher wage does not necessarily make…

Contrary to popular belief, teachers don’t finish work at 3pm, or spend the entire summer holiday period at the beach. You get up early, set up your classroom, spend all day with children – which isn’t everyone’s idea of fun – then you tidy…

If you run your own business, or you freelance, it can be difficult to draw boundaries between work and home. However, a work-life balance is crucial to corporate wellness – not to mention your family’s wellbeing – so what can you do to…

Working mums seem to be at the centre of the work-life balance debate, whether they are hailed as feminist superwomen or victimised for their lack of a breadwinner partner. But is this mum-centred debate marginalising the corporate wellness…

According to Marcia Wieder, a leading expert on visionary thinking, ‘One of the most frequent, burning questions I get asked by my clients is how to effectively balance their career and family…Our home and work worlds are constantly…

Maintaining a work-life balance is the age-old challenge of corporate wellness, and it’s hard enough when you do the traditional nine-to-five, but what if you have a job that makes demands of your social hours too? Luckily, Abbie Schneider,…

For Ann Laurie Fratticcioli, owner of Time Well Spent – a Concierge and Personal Errand Services based in Central New Jersey – the work-life balance debate has come to the forefront. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In talks about…

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Raising children doesn't always have its doom-and-gloom sides; in the efforts of putting those pattering feet beneath a quilt at night and having to nudge them up in the early mornings, there is something fulfilling when in-between those…

How often do you sit in your permanent, affordable and pleasant place to live and think about how things could be different? We often take our homes for granted but they are fundamental to our health and wellbeing, and most of the time we…

Technology has helped workaholic Indians to achieve a better work-life balance. This is according to a new study from Accenture entitled Defining Success, which found that 64% of Indians describe themselves as workaholics, and their…

Work takes up a large proportion of our time, with most of our week spent with our colleagues. So, with this in mind, it stands to reason that how we feel when we're there is important. Just because you're at work doesn't mean that you need…

Teaching is an increasingly stressful occupation in which the working day goes far beyond the hours in the classroom for many teachers. Maintaining the right work-life balance is essential for teachers who want to give their best to…

The typical worker has six different jobs, one office romance and is late 154 times. This is according to a new survey, which also found that, if you’re the typical British worker, you also take 125 sick days, go through ten job interviews…

Richard McIntyre had a change in his work-life balance four years ago. It is a change that was appreciated by his children, Matthew, 4, and Olivia, 6. When Matthew was in utero, Mr McIntyre and his wife Emma were informed by their doctor…

In the modern world it can be very easy to lose track and lose control of our home lives when they are combined so seamlessly with work. We often see ‘having it all’ as the pinnacle of our achievements. This places our focus on external…

By autumn of this year, Lexmark hopes to unveil a 25,500-square-foot onsite child-care facility, offering full-time, part-time and emergency back-up child care for up to 186 children and grandchildren of employees. The facilities are set to…

The famous saying by Charles Dickens’s character, Mr Micawber, is as true today as when first published in 1850. Your financial wellness involves an intricate balancing act between the amount of money coming in and the amount going out. A…

It’s worth asking: does the concept of a work-life balance really exist? And when you are interviewing for a company, what are questions that you should ask to find out if they value work-life balance without making it seem that you are…

Family-friendly policies in the workplace are known to lead to greater productivity and improved performance from staff. These policies include the likes of flexi-time or part-time working; job sharing, term-time working; days working…

Worrying about working too hard and putting pleasure before our careers is what drives work/life imbalances, say experts. Professor in business psychology Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic recently said that accepting we all need to work hard and…

As we are all urged to work harder and longer, achieving the right work/life balance becomes ever more difficult. We spend so much time in our working environment that it’s essential to enjoy life to the full when we’re not putting in the…

We've come a long way in the last few decades but in a time where technology allows us to talk to anyone in the world instantly for free, we've never been more lonely as a people. Work takes more and more of our time and the level of stress…

One of the most important parts of finding your happiness is being happy in your work life. If you consider how much of our time we all spend working, going to work and coming back from work you'll realise just how large a portion of your…

Social media has a lot of positive impact on our lives and in recent years it has become an important method of marketing for companies and products. It's easier than ever before to keep in contact with old friends and there's never a day…

The world is always changing and with that change comes advantages and disadvantages. With new technologies come new ways of doing business and new ways to learn. If the working men and women of fifty years ago were to walk in to a…

Your personal health and wellbeing has to come high up on your list of priorities, I’m talking top three things. You have to care about yourself, look after yourself and even love yourself to an extent or you’re going to let your own health…

Do you find yourself busy at your workplace beyond regular working hours?  Yes.  Often the pressure of work makes you sit late and work later and later.  You may need to explain to your spouse the necessity to work late, because it…

Time Management is the essence of getting control over your life.  You need to be clear about your priorities, before you plan your schedule. Time Management is a concept that you still fail at, quite often. No one teaches you on…