Work-life balance is not only essential to maintain the well-being and productivity of employees, but employers also benefit equally from it. Employers also increase the chances of their business to grow and expand when they promote a work-life balance at the workplace. However, employers can sometimes find their best employees reluctant to adopt a work-life balance for the sake of achieving professional success. In such cases, employers can adjust the workplace according to the employees’ needs and promote work-life balance in unique ways.
As an employer, you can introduce the following methods at the workplace to promote work-life balance:
Promote Health and Wellbeing
There are various ways to promote employee health and wellbeing in the workplace. Some of these are:
Arrange Health Drives
Workplaces can encourage health drives that inform workers on various aspects of health and on improving health. Some health drives also perform simple tests to measure their chances of contracting certain diseases. This initiative can remind employees to make time for their health, indirectly promoting work-life balance.
Offer Gym Services
Employers can either offer in-house gym services or discount gym memberships with an established health club. Managers and team leaders can insist their team members complete work on time and join them at the health club, resulting in work-life balance and healthy and positive workplace culture.
Provide Healthy Lunch
Providing free or discounted healthy lunches can also encourage employees to live healthier lives. If the workplace takes care of one aspect of living a healthy life for employees, employees can find it easier to make changes in other aspects.
Encourage Creative Pursuits
Employers can encourage creative hobbies among employees by either organizing creative events at the workplace or equipping the break room with equipment for these hobbies. A ping-pong table, a Pac-man game, and board games can be especially popular among employees of all ages. Managers and team leaders can initiate games on days with lesser workload or lunch breaks.
Provide Daycare Facilities
Work-life balance can mean different things to different employees. For your employees who are also parents, there can be nothing that encourages work-life balance as on-site daycare services. Besides helping them stay calm and feel secure about their children, on-site daycare services also allow them to see their children during the day and take them home as soon as they can.
This initiative can increase efficiency and productivity from the employees using this service. Their efficiency and need to take their kids home on time will encourage others to stay productive during work hours. Moreover, seeing these employees go home on time with their kids will encourage other employees to make time for their domestic needs.
Finally, encourage your employees to stay consistent rather than force them to improve every day. Employees’ work-life balance is more achievable when employees know what is expected of them and trust their ability to deliver it. In the long run, consistent and efficient employees can play a greater role in client satisfaction and growth of the organization than over-worked employees striving to prove themselves.
