Work life balance is an imperative aspect towards ensuring one's wellbeing. With millennials on a constant quest for success, the ability to achieve harmony between work and life is proving to be increasingly difficult.
Work functions as a crucial element in one's journey to achieve their ambitions or life goals. In today's workplace, a significant population of the workforce comprises of millennials who have a completely different outlook with regards to their expectations from their employment experience. They are well educated, tech savvy, confident, can multi-task, and possess abundant energy. Even though they carry high expectations for themselves and are constantly on the lookout for challenges, they also give due importance to work life balance.
In the recent past, more number of millennials have made their foray into the corporate world. The initial stages of the employee's job are a crucial phase for his/her growth trajectory and career planning. With overwhelming enthusiasm for a job, some millennials tend to put in extra hours to showcase productive work, but overlook their social and personal well-being. When one gets accustomed to such an imbalance, it gets difficult to get back on track. It is therefore best to maintain consistency from the very beginning.
Let us take a look at a few tips for the fast-paced millennials to balance their work and personal life:
This story is from the March 2019 edition of Human Capital.
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