Are we really able to have Work Life Balance?

Are we really able to have Work Life Balance?


Is it really easy to maintain a Work Life Balance? Nowadays, Corporates arrange Training Programmes, Yoga Classes, Seminars to educate employees on how to maintain a Work Life Balance. But does it really work? As an employee, are we really able to follow those steps or lessons?

Today everyone is working towards getting a good PMS Rating. Working to meet deadlines, working to be the Best Performer, working towards achieving the targets, sometimes hectic weekends also, late working hours also. We can't afford to miss the deadlines because Corporate Life is becoming Competitive day by day. Not able to meet the targets...PMS rating is down. As such nowadays, Organisations are hardly following the Bell Curve...

Reaching early.......returning late to home. How to go out for a dinner with family (promised long time back), when I have an unplanned Top Management meeting the next day and I have to prepare reports?? Happens almost with everyone. How to deal with it? Someone has to suffer and its saying no to the family dinner and promising for some other day.

I believe that it is the Management responsibility to device effective mechanism and tools, where in employees are able to maintain Work Life Balances. A "Top Down  Approach" of maintaining this balance can only work.