Work-Life Balance
Is it part of your Corporate Culture?
The success or failure of an organisation ultimately depends on its corporate culture and business leaders are the ones who set the right or wrong culture for the organisation. Implementing the right work-life balance for the organisation and the employees will therefore depends on its culture and leaders.
Many business leaders pay lip service to work-life balance. They may strongly advocate for it but yet, they themselves do not set the right example. They work long hours and drive their employees hard to meet targets. Rather than having a conducive high-performance culture with the right work-life balance, dissatisfaction among employees increases and the culture will eventually turn toxic, resulting in high employee turnover. In the end, productivity and performance of employees will go in a downward spiral.
"Many business leaders pay lip service to work-life balance."
Happy employees have a direct impact on the productivity and performance of the company. As a result of happy employees building better rapport with customers, satisfaction and retention of loyal customers increase. In the end, this improves revenue and the overall profitability of the company.
Not only happy employees are less likely to quit, but they are also more engaged, collaborative and even innovative in finding solutions to issues faced by the business. By and large, the rate of absenteeism and presenteeism decrease within a happy workforce.
To have happy employees, businesses must focus on employee wellness and wellbeing. One of the ways to have better employee wellness and wellbeing is to provide better work-life balance.
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Stressed and overworked employees are more likely to have mental issues like anxiety and depression as well as suffer from chronic diseases like hypertension. Moreover, they are more likely to have a negative impact on the overall work environment and culture. As a result, the whole organisation will be affected.
Hence, a better work-life balance for the employees can be part of the solution to avoid such a situation. Employees with a good work-life balance feels more empowered to manage their work and family life. As a result, this may provide them a greater sense of fulfilment and happiness. This positive outlook will spill over within the organisation. Not only happy employees are more likely to be more productive, but the corporate bottom line will also improve with lower health costs and absenteeism.
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A healthy workforce is an asset and a competitive advantage for any business. Instilling work-life balance at work as well as encouraging a more active and livelier lifestyle will lead to a workforce that is generally healthier, happier and higher performing. Moreover, employees, who are generally more active and conscious of their diet, are more likely to suffer less from physical and mental illnesses.
The sedentary lifestyle of office workers leads to chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. To make matters worse, their mental health will also be affected with increasing levels of stress, anxiety and even depression.
Hence, investing in work-life balance to create a healthy workforce will have a positive impact on the organisation. Not only this leads to lower health costs, but it also creates a happier and higher performing workforce.
A work-life balance, that promotes an active lifestyle, can bring about numerous physical and psychological benefits to the employees. In the end, the company will also reap the rewards of a healthy workforce.
First, doing outdoor physical exercises provides employees an opportunity to take a break from stressful moments at work. Moreover, employees doing regular outdoor exercises can not only have an opportunity to re-connect with nature and their neighbourhood community, but also enjoy health benefits from their exposure to sunlight. Generally, after some vigorous exercises, the overall mood of any individual will be more positive and less stressed.
The physical benefits of an active lifestyle are numerous. Regular physical exercises reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases with a healthier and stronger heart. The risks of other chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure as well as obesity and high cholesterol levels are also reduced with regular aerobic physical exercises.
As for the psychological benefits, the mental health of employees will greatly improve with an active lifestyle. By and large, physical exercises instil a more positive sense of oneself. Moreover, they improve one's ability to handle stress and reduce one's anxiety level. Overall, employees are more positive and less likely to fall into depression.
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