Work-life Balance
Workplace imbalance hurting, expect employee engagement in 2023: Experts
With resignations and layoffs dominating trends post-Covid, HR leaders anticipate focus on employee engagement, hybrid work model and greater tech investment to improve efficiency
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Flexible working hours can benefit productivity, work-life balance: ILO
Reduced working hours and more flexible working time arrangements, such as those used during the Covid-19 crisis, can bring benefits for economies, businesses and workers, says the ILO report
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Half of the world's workforce works too much or too little: ILO report
The ILO report also examined the mismatches between workers' actual hours of work and their preferred hours of work
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2022: When the pendulum moved from great resignation to great return
The controls are back with employers, and WFO with a degree of flexibility is the office-way for now
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Are Indians more holiday-prone?
The law minister of India recently said that the vacation period of Indian courts is an inconvenience to the people. The remark has opened up a debate if Indians, in general, take plenty of leaves
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TMS Ep190: RBI rate hike, four-day work week, impact of monsoons, MGNREGA
What should borrowers & depositors do amid rising interest rates? Can India have a four-day work week like UK? Can a good monsoon prevent more rate hikes? What is the MGNREGA scheme? All answers here
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How India negotiated work-life as Covid kept hitting back-to-office plans
2021, the year that was: What worked with work, or didn't
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UAE becomes first country to transition to 4-and-half day work week
According to the new schedule, Monday to Thursday the work timings would be from 7.30 am to 3.30 pm, followed by a half day on Friday from 7.30 am to 12.00 pm
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Iceland reduces working hours but maintains productivity and pay
A four-day work week has been an "overwhelming success" in Iceland: researchers
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BoB to offer flexible working model to employees; focus on mobile banking
This is aimed at striking a work-life balance and productivity enhancement in the long run.
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Myth of work-life balance
Managements still pay lip service to this concept
How flexibility drives productivity
Flexi work models can go a long way in retaining talent
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