Work-Life Balance

One of the major issues that organizations and employees face [blank] the difficulty in finding balance between work and personal life. It is not possible to separate those two areas, as problems or stress in one area strongly affect the other. Further, the two areas often compete with one another for individuals' time, energy, and attention. This leads to conflict and stress, [blank] in turn causes lower performance levels on the job. Organizations realize that this is not a beneficial situation, and there are many things they can [blank] to support the right balance between work and life. One of the most obvious is to limit expectations [blank] reasonable levels of work commitment each week. Overloading employees and demanding an unreasonable portion of their time and energy inevitably leads to difficulties. Along these same lines, providing ample vacation time has also been identified as a wise policy that prevents employee burnout and increases productivity [blank] the long run.