5 signs your people don’t have work-life balance

By ExecutiveBrief Staff

Thus, in order to beat deadlines and workloads, meals are often skipped, sleep is cut short, worrying occupies the mind and the body is exhausted. When these happen, the employees health is put at risk. It will not be uncommon for the employees to be absent, tardy and sleepy. Similarly, the office clinic doctor would be busy taking blood pressures, prescribing medicines and administering medical procedures. As a consequence, company medical expenses increase.

3) When employees have family relations problems
This is a common occurrence for employees whose lives are too tilted on work.  It happens when work begins to take over and eat up of most of his time.  One wakes up when the children have gone to school and arrives when the children have gone to bed. No time is left for having breakfast together, nor exchanges of pleasantries during dinner. More so, in attending memorable school events. They even forget birthdays and sometimes their own wedding anniversaries. Likewise, vacations are often postponed. The parents and the children have become strangers to one another. They begin to lose emotional attachments to each other. The children no longer feel the care, the attention and the love they need. They are left alone to their peers and the parent-children generation gap widens . Employees begin to evade family topics in the workplace because they no longer know their family that well.

4) When company productivity deteriorates
As a result of burnt out and health problems in employees, not to mention the family issues, the company’s productivity is bound to deteriorate.  Employees become less motivated, distracted and less enthusiastic in their work. Teamwork is reduced and employees become less cooperative Then the company sees tardiness and absenteeism reducing output and bad health affecting the physical capability of the employees to deliver quantity and quality of work.

5) When employees lose friends
Losing friends is another sign of work-life imbalance. When one stops going out with co-workers or friends for a round of golf or tennis, engaging in chats over bottles of beer or coffee, or joining company-initiated activities, he may be losing his work-life balance. Friends compose the peer group that provides reassurances, advice and confidence to a person in whatever emotional state one is in. Taking away this opportunity for casual exchanges and emotional ventilations could contain worry and stress in the person.

Employees, or everyone in the workplace for that matter, need to maintain a work-life balance.  If these signs appear in any one of your work groups, take action.

Do you think someone on his death bed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time in the office?”

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