Be human | Empowering work-life balance LinkedIn post goes VIRAL

Over the last few years, employers have grown increasingly concerned about the importance of work-life balance after realising the potential benefits.

Flexible working has become a common workplace offering as well as a key enabler to increase staff attraction and retention as it allows employees to pick and choose when and where they work. This is done in the hope that a better work-life balance will result in happier, healthier and more productive employees which will ultimately benefit business performance.

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But, despite employers showing a conscious effort to shake up the norms of the nine to five working culture, some workers still feel shackled to their desks to catch up on deadlines or obligated to reply to work emails in the middle of the night. This is supported by a host of statistical studies.

According to 2018 research commissioned by Gympass, British workers are adamant that their current job takes up almost half of their life, while just one-third of the professionals polled believed that they had perfected their work-life balance.