The document discusses work-life balance and outlines an agenda to explore the topic. It defines work-life balance as properly prioritizing career/ambition and health/family. The reality is that overworking leads to absenteeism, lower productivity, dissatisfaction, higher costs and less loyalty. The agenda includes activities to understand priorities and reflect on one's own situation and a 10-point plan for achieving better balance.
2. Agenda
What is it?
Whats the reality?
Activity DOGBERTs Seminar
Activity II- Priorities Sections
Activity III - Thinking
Whats the benefit?
Whats my (your) situation?
Macs ten-point plan?
2/25/2014
GURUKUL
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3. Worklife balance is a broad concept including proper
prioritizing between work (career and ambition) on one
hand and life (Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual
development) on the other.
Related, though broader, terms include lifestyle balance and
life balance
5. Work is about a search for daily
meaning as well as daily bread,
for recognition as well as cash,
for astonishment rather than
torpor, in short, for a sort of life
rather than a Monday through
Friday sort of dying
Studs Terkel
6. Employees sitting late / overtime / working on
holidays / day off are leading into the
following:= sum(
Absenteeism +
Reduced productivity +
Job dissatisfaction +
Rising healthcare costs +
Lower levels of organisational commitment
and loyalty )
= Poor customer service