Work-life balance sounds great in theory. But how can you hold down a busy career job and still have great relationships and time for golf? And what’s in it for employers to accommodate employees’ outside commitments and ‘be flexible’?
Successful, satisfying and productive lives are not so much about a balancing act as about making conscious choices for how we integrate all the parts of our lives. For organisations, being effective and socially responsible is a key aspect of corporate social responsibility. It involves a serious consideration of their role in creating strategies to accommodate employees’ work/life integration and the symbiotic nature of organisations within the wider environment. To ensure an effective link between individual performance and corporate outcomes, a paradigm shift is required from work-life balance to work-life integration. What is work-life integration?
