1. Work-Life Balance
Course : Quality of Working Life
Professor : Martin John David Quigley
Spring/ Summer Semester 2016
Member : Alena Averyanova
Annie Rukajarvi
Martin Rezabek
Panteleimon Kollias
2. Before We Start
Has anyone had a job, while studying in the
same period ?
Tell us your experience on how you managed to
combine them both in the same time ?
What do you think is Work- Life Balance ?
Do you think that is an important factor in
someone’s life ?
4. Advantages of Work-Life
Balance
Employees are more effective and more
productive
They are also more focused to company’s goal
Obvious separation between Work and Real Life
Personal Life doesn’t effect Employees’
efficiency
5. Need of Work-Life Balance
While studying in the same period
After giving birth to a child
While having psychological problems
(Depression)
After Burnout effect
6. Burnout
Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace
stress
•Feeling anxious, irritable, or
depressed
•Apathy, loss of interest in
work
•Problems sleeping
•Fatigue
•Trouble concentrating
•Muscle tension or headaches
•Stomach problems
•Social withdrawal
•Using alcohol or drugs to
cope
7. Get moving
Talk to an attentive listener
Make food choices that keep you going
Get enough sleep
You can learn how to manage job stress!
Prioritize tasks
Develop the capacity to meet
challenges with humor
Flip your negative thinking
8. Workaholism
“Soul-destroying addiction that changes people’s personality and the
values they live by”
● Workaholic can be defined as a work-obsessed individual who gradually
becomes emotionally crippled and addicted to power and control in a
compulsive drive to gain approval and public recognition of success
● Threatens family security and often leads to a family break-up if not
cured
● Hard worker and workaholic is not the same thing
9. Idlers
● The opposite of workaholics; being unemployed by a choice
● Welfare trap/poverty trap/unemployment trap
● Slow lifestyle or being lazy?
● Downshifting - ideology of work-to-live instead of live-to-
work
10. Work-Life Balance in
Finland
Family
Around 1.4 million families in Finland -> half of these are
families with children, and 13 % single parent families
Maternity/paternity leave and parental leave in total around
9 months
The maternity care box
Possibility to stay home until the child is 3-years-old, after
that partial care leave
Opportunity to go municipal day care for every child under
school age - the fee varies between 0 € and 283 €
11. Work-Life Balance in
Finland
Work
a high participation rate of both men and women in working
life -> 78 % of men and 73 % of women work while the EU
average for women is 57 %
Weekly working hours same as the EU average; more
overtime work and less part time work
Unemployment rate ~ 9,4 % (10,4 % for men and 8,4 % for
women) - the EU average 10,4 % (February 2016)
Welfare trap is a common problem keeping people from
accepting low-paid jobs
12. Work-Life Balance in
Greece
Due to Financial Crisis, It’s difficult to find a balance
between Working and Real Life
74% of Greek employees are forced to work more
hours than in 2010
Unemployment and economic instability has affected
negatively the psychology of Greeks, and their
personal lives
Lack of flexibility regarding working time for parents
employed full time
Women in Greece feel that they don’t have enough
time for hobbies and interests
13. Work-Life Balance in
Russian Federation
39% are not satisfied with their work life balance
It way cause by lack of workers (52% of people say
that they feel lack of on their workplace, and they
have to do much more work and usually stay longer
on the work.
close to 69% of the working-age population aged 15
to 64 has a paid job
Women are still less likely than men to participate in
the labour market. 64% of women have jobs and it
is less than the 74% employment rate of men in the
Russian Federation.
14. Do you sacrifice
your life for work or
it is reverse?
Personal life
suffers
I can combine everithin
Work life suffers
15. Work-Life Balance in the
Czech Republic
Flexible work time
Part-time jobs- Job
sharing
Home Office
Shared Workplace
Bonus Cards
Children Daycare
Social Advisory
Not as flexible as it
seems
Competitive Tendences
Loose of Focus
May Used as a Spot
Unused
Lack of Support
Too shy to talk
16. Work-Life Balance in the
Czech Republic
82,2% Men
64,4% Women
Work-Life Balance
Audit
Work
Life
Balance
Corporate Culture
17. Work-Life Balance in the
Czech Republic
50% satisfied with time
More than 50% satisfied
with boss
50% not satisfied with
salary
67% won‘t get a raise
44% think it‘s not fair
43% will change a job for
a candy
60% regular overtime
Leisure time critical
everywhere
18. Work-Life Balance in the
Czech Republic
56% healthy and fit
72% like corp. culture
67% can use flexible
work time
22% are smokers
19. So what is actually Work-
Life Balance ?
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