IMPACT OF FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE

ABSTRACT

Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between "work" (career and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). This is related to the idea of lifestyle choice. Nowadays, flexible working hours are becoming important to the workplaces. A lot of organizations offer flexible working hours to employees due to the benefits that flexibility gives to both employee and employer. Greater employee productivity and higher organization profitability are the most common benefits. Also, flexible working hours promote and facilitate work-life balance. Reduced stress and increased employee wellbeing are out-comes of the work-life balance. In this paper, the relationship between flexible working hours and work-life balance is investigated.

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