Work Life Balance
According to Simonetta Manfredi and Michelle Holliday’s research (2004), the topic about work-life balance is popular among people since the beginning of a major UK campaign in 2000 (Changing Patterns in a Changing World, DFEE, 2000). What does the “work-life balance” mean? According to the explanation of Eurofound Website (2009), work life balance refers to “a state of equilibrium between an individual’s work and personal life”. But the Economic Times website (2013) think that work-life balance does not mean an absolutely equal balance of time, because it is impossible for a person to separate a day equally into both work and personal activities.While the fact in terms of work-life balance is that people are encountering the imbalance between work and life every day, contributing to health problems. Therefore, maintaining a healthy work-life balance is of importance because the imbalance between work and life may lead to stress that finally will result in illness in terms of both physical and psychological aspects. The best way of reaching the balance is to increase the efficiency of daily work. This essay will focus on a healthy work-life balance, introducing the content of work-life balance firstly and will give an example about imbalance .Next, it will explain how the imbalance influence people’s health by stress in physical and mental aspects . The final part is the summary to support these statements and the view throughout the whole research essay.
According to Robert Taylor (2001), work-life balance is the existent relationship between the paid work and the lives people own without their jobs.Simonetta Manfredi and Michelle Holliday’s research (2004) suggests that the hardcore of work-life balance depend on the theory that “paid work and personal life should be seen less as competing priorities than as complementary elements of a full life”. The innovation of the concept is in order to encourage people to “adopt flexible working arrangements such as job
According to Robert Taylor (2001), work-life balance is the existent relationship between the paid work and the lives people own without their jobs.Simonetta Manfredi and Michelle Holliday’s research (2004) suggests that the hardcore of work-life balance depend on the theory that “paid work and personal life should be seen less as competing priorities than as complementary elements of a full life”. The innovation of the concept is in order to encourage people to “adopt flexible working arrangements such as job
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