How to Manage Work/Life Balance While Advancing a Career
How to Manage Work/Life Balance While Advancing a Career
Abstract
This paper is intended to show that while advancing ones career, there is a myriad of ways to manage work and life balance. There are some folks in an organization that would just rather show up and continue the status quo of putting in a 40 to 60 hour work week. Not having a level work and life balance can be hazardous to your health and cost you and your company greatly. Not everyone in the workforce desires a work and life balance. In fact, some occupations are not as balance friendly as others. Work and life balance is good for you, good for your health and good for your employer. If work and life balance is what you are looking for then you are in luck as more organizations than ever before are starting to embrace the idea and are putting programs in place which accommodate work life balance. With the use of many of the new technological inventions, company or government incentives and various training programs, work and life balance is easier to achieve than one many think.
How to Manage Work/Life Balance While Advancing a Career
Paper Section
Due to the recent financial crisis in the United States, more and more people are looking for ways to tighten their budgets and stretch their household incomes to the furthest extent possible. At the same time, many people are looking for ways to reduce or eliminate their stress levels caused by their work commitments and commitments to their families at the same time advancing in their career.
In the past five years the unemployment rate in the United States has almost doubled from 4.4 percent in 2007 to 8.2 percent in 2012 (“Bureau of labor, “2012). The rise in unemployment could be directly related to the downturn in the economy as many companies are downsizing or re-organizing their workforce to create efficiencies and to help increase the bottom line. This has had to have some type of emotional impact
Abstract
This paper is intended to show that while advancing ones career, there is a myriad of ways to manage work and life balance. There are some folks in an organization that would just rather show up and continue the status quo of putting in a 40 to 60 hour work week. Not having a level work and life balance can be hazardous to your health and cost you and your company greatly. Not everyone in the workforce desires a work and life balance. In fact, some occupations are not as balance friendly as others. Work and life balance is good for you, good for your health and good for your employer. If work and life balance is what you are looking for then you are in luck as more organizations than ever before are starting to embrace the idea and are putting programs in place which accommodate work life balance. With the use of many of the new technological inventions, company or government incentives and various training programs, work and life balance is easier to achieve than one many think.
How to Manage Work/Life Balance While Advancing a Career
Paper Section
Due to the recent financial crisis in the United States, more and more people are looking for ways to tighten their budgets and stretch their household incomes to the furthest extent possible. At the same time, many people are looking for ways to reduce or eliminate their stress levels caused by their work commitments and commitments to their families at the same time advancing in their career.
In the past five years the unemployment rate in the United States has almost doubled from 4.4 percent in 2007 to 8.2 percent in 2012 (“Bureau of labor, “2012). The rise in unemployment could be directly related to the downturn in the economy as many companies are downsizing or re-organizing their workforce to create efficiencies and to help increase the bottom line. This has had to have some type of emotional impact
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