This assignment was made to explain and find the truth about the concept of work life balance which is meaningful for the worker. As many researcher and people arguing about this concept, The author comes to the decision which is disagree that work life balance is important for the worker. As a concept, the work life balance can be said has a great effect for the worker, but in real life work life balance was difficult to maintain. Not all worker can contribute their time only for working without having their socializing, and leisure. What more important nowadays is their health/ life. Life was more important than the work. Their life will always bigger than their work, trying to balance them is a failure method no matter how passionate we are about it or how successful we become. In fact, the more passionate we are about it, the bigger the life has to get. If we work too much, our personal life will be suffer. Work and life aren’t measure on the same scale because one is a subset of the other.
Introduction
In this assignment the author would like to find the truth about the work life balance, whether it was only meaningful for workshy and the lacking of ambition in life.
Work life balance could be said as a concept about equally manage the work and lifestyle. How people will actually find a way to make their working time and personal activities in balance. The study conducted that in current, the employee has consider that the work life balance concept was very important to their overall job satisfaction continue to increases.
Work life balance was about the interaction between paid work and other activities, including the unpaid work in the family, community, and personal development.
Work life balance helps you assess your current balance and provides tools for planning and making at the working place. (Hawks,2008).
Was it true that the work life balance was that important in work?.
Definition
Work life balance was not
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