Work Life Balance Assessments of AXIS Bank Employees

Abstract

“There is only one success – To be able to spend your life, your own way” Christopher Morley Life is short journey of self- discovery. It is a journey of choices and challenges that a human makes. The ups and downs that occur, as a consequence of these choices and challenges, have to be tackled by man, himself. The decisions he takes to counteract these choices and challenges, determines his success in life. ZigZagler, the late well- known American author and motivational speaker once said “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life, if your home life is in shambles”. The study, ‘Work life balance assessments of bank employees’, marginally captured this viewpoint, by studying the work lives of a selected set of employees of AXIS bank. Work life balance is not an individual concern any more. It is individuals who make organizations. Work life balance thus, has transitioned from the traditional individual psychological realm to social, emotional, organizational and cultural needs of every modern organization today. It is an issue that is of ultimate importance and priority, to both to the organizations and its employees. With the lines between work and life having completely blurred, especially in the globalized business, every organization is struggling to retain a ‘happy’ worker. Working executives from top to bottom; i.e. from Chief Executive Officer to a Management Trainee across the globe, seem to be resting on a volcano of stress and imbalance which can erupt and explode any moment.