Work-life balance in healthcare: Decoding the mantra between corporate benevolence or productive transcendence

To be productive and effective across healthcare operations in digital India, institutions and organizations are promoting the concept of "Work-Life Balance". You work at work, you take care of life issues otherwise.

- DR SHADAB AHMED

This objective mantra of corporate benevolence demands a stabilized and sustainable equipoise between a healthy stress-free working lifestyle and the abject demand of impartial productivity. But how do you extend it uniformly across your work force?

Work Organisation - To begin with, any healthcare organization must establish a distinct work scheduling policy that factors and figures the static and dynamic needs of their employees. The enigma remains to find the balance between what the organization wants and what the employee prefers. The goal is to efficiently streamline the delivery of work and reduce inessential stress. Judicious promotion of regular breaks, time-offs and flexibility in schedule on a selectively rational ad-hoc basis will massively enhance the work-life balance and productivity of the employee.