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Post-COVID Work-Life Balance Trends

The document discusses the evolution of work-life balance post-COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of flexible working arrangements that cater to employee needs. A 2021 EY poll revealed that 90% of employees desire flexibility in their work location and timings, highlighting the need for leadership to adapt to these demands. It also stresses the significance of establishing personal boundaries and open communication to maintain a healthy work-life balance in a remote working environment.

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Post-COVID Work-Life Balance Trends

The document discusses the evolution of work-life balance post-COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of flexible working arrangements that cater to employee needs. A 2021 EY poll revealed that 90% of employees desire flexibility in their work location and timings, highlighting the need for leadership to adapt to these demands. It also stresses the significance of establishing personal boundaries and open communication to maintain a healthy work-life balance in a remote working environment.

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Evolution in Work Life Balance Post Covid 19

Working from home or hybrid working or remote working or the 4-day working week are all terms which
organizations have typically clustered into a key component and thus depict the concept of ‘flexible’
working, but they do not actually represent the same thing. Organizations need to bring the time to fully
comprehend what flexible working really means and take action to facilitate the employee’s needs
accordingly. The concept of flexible working gives employees the power to plan their own working plan.
If an employee is starting their work an hour earlier and finishing an hour earlier irrespective of their
scheduled time calendar, simply means that they can spend their down-time doing what they love and
willing to spend their time.

A recent report on the poll which was conducted by EY in 2021 found that every 9 out of 10 employees
want flexibility in the work location and work timings. The pandemic of COVID 2019 has cemented the
way for new ways of working, so it’s now up to leadership and top management to gather this new
demand for flexibility and conscious control of time for their employee’s satisfaction. The concept of
internal shifts needs to be made for external shifts to take place and to be successful. Leaders need to
focus on constructing the accurate personal practices that will work out for them, based on who they
really are. These perceptions can then be applied at work, home, with teams and with organizations.

One of the benefits of remote working has been the capacity, at least to some level, to establish and
shield the employee’s personal boundaries. The pandemic gave a lot of employees scope to consider
and re-evaluate what they actually wanted out of their work situations. Nowadays, business researchers
and psychologists believe that putting a boundary around employee’s personal life or information, can
be done successfully and without causing infraction. It’s an obvious stubbornness but it’s totally
acceptable to be picky whether an employee want to let another employee/employer or any other
individual in the organization in their personal space and personal life. Work life balance also provide
safeguard from the humiliation of the question asked by other team members/colleagues about the
employee’s job or pay grade, interviewer, if any reference received within the organization, joining
bonus and so on. Time is evolving, we are living into a world that is no longer governed by long restless
working hours, corporate career reputation, and a life flourished through acquisitiveness. The new age
will tend to see a greater fraction of workers looking to retire ahead the expected age of 60, in
comparison of late 19th century.

Work-life balance is essential as working remotely due to COVID-19 has not replaced this statement.
Employees must take initiative to make work-life balance a precedence in their life cycles. Employees
should have open communication with their boss and colleagues and be truthful about how working
remotely has impacted their professional and personal life. Today is the day to salvage your work-life
balance for your own life.

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