Understanding and Managing Life at Work for Women: A Study based on Working Women from Some Parts of Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Abstract

Work – life balance is an important concept for organization as well as for employees. The desire to live a good life is encouraging people to work hard and put more hours of work at their work place. In this situation the employees often get stuck in their office. This creates stress in their lives leading to various problems which is not good for the employee, employer, family and its surroundings. To avoid these problems, the employers are looking for the solutions to deal with this problem. They are providing options like flexi- timings, work from home options and part –time options. For female employees they are providing multiple facilities for their children like onsite daycare, crèche etc. and also they provide flexible working hours pattern for them. This article will focus on the problems of today's employee with a special focus on problems faced by women employees and what the organization and employee is doing to avoid these problems. During this study the finding indicates that the women are facing problems related to work-life balance. They enjoy working however they need a helping hand for other household works. Employers and the spouse are contributing to balance work-life.