Volume : 5, Issue : 3, March - 2016

Study of the effect of ‘Commuting & Working hours’ on Work Life Balance of working Fathers in Mumbai

Santosh R S, Dr Richa Jain

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;In recent years, work&ndash;life balance has become a keyword for balancing working time and free time. In particular, TIME is a crucial resource for balancing work and life, because it can be allocated to either work or free time. We examine the effect of working hours and commuting time on Work Life Balance, with data collected from a survey. Working time has been an important issue for the ILO ever since the founding of the organization. The establishment of limits on daily and weekly working hours was the subject of the very first ILO Convention: the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1). The recent economic crisis and the Global Jobs Pact of 2009 have put working-time issues back on the agenda. At the same time, recent trends such as technological advancements enabling tele-working have contributed to the creation of a &ldquo;24-hour society&rdquo; where line between work and non-work time is becoming increasingly blurred. This has been coupled with a significant shift away from the &ldquo;normal&rdquo; or &ldquo;standard&rdquo; working week towards &ldquo;nonstandard&rdquo; work schedules, for example shift and part-time work, compressed workweeks, weekend work, on-call work etc. The world has changed in the 24-hour, 7 day society, customers expect service at times that suit them. More and More people have to juggle responsibilities at home and in the workplace. And when employees are asked about the WORK LIFE, the three concerns that emerge out more frequently are long working hours, work intensity and commuting hours. Work-Life and Personal-Life and interconnected and interdependent. Spending more time in commuting and working can interfere and affect the Personal-Life, sometimes making it impossible to even complete the household chores. On the other hand, Personal-Life can also be demanding if you have a kid or ageing parents, financial problems or even problems in the life of a dear relative. With the growing diversity of family structures represented in the workforce in the new millennium, it is important that human resource professionals better understand the interface of work and family relationships and resulting impact in the workplace. This paper is trying to ing out the effects of WORKING HOURS on Work Life balance of working men over their various aspects of Work Life Balance such as Work Interference with Personal Life (WIPL), Factors impacting on work-life balance (FIWLB) and Factors impacting on Engagements with the children (FIEWC). Specifically, it has been focused here that the TIME MANAGEMENT lead to attaining equiliium between professional work and other activities.</p>