13
Ways to Improve Your Work Life Pay-Gap.com

7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

  • Upload
    pay-gap

  • View
    190

  • Download
    1

Embed Size (px)

Citation preview

Page 1: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

Ways to

Improve

Your

Work

Life

Pay-Gap.com

Page 2: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

What is Work Life Balance?

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

“Work Life Balance is the concept of balancing and prioritizing Work/Career

commitments and that of “Life” - family, friends, leisure, health and spiritual.”

Page 3: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

Why is it important?

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o To enjoy your work, you need time away from your Work.

o Your Career can progress even more because your fulfilled by your work and in life.

o Remember Work is there to enhance your Life, not to be your life.

Page 4: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

Why so elusive?

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o We are always ConnectedWe are connected to our work all the time - email, professional networks, phone, internet ….

o Financial CrisisJobs have been hard to get and keep. No one wants to get laid off.

o There is more things to spend our money on

Houses, Cars, Phones, Tablets, Games, Holidays …

Page 5: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

Ways to

Improve

Your

Work

Life

Pay-Gap.com

Page 6: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

1 - Switch off

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Switching off is not easy. You could be connected to your work, without even releasing it, unless you make a conscious effort to switch off.

o Option 1If you have a Company laptop and/or Phone. Can you leave them at work. Sometimes this is not always possible, but if you can then it’s the best option.

o Option 2If you have to bring your laptop/phone home. Set a strict time e.g. 1 hour to check/correspond to all your emails and stick to it. Logging in over the course of your evening will not allow you to switch off from work.

Page 7: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

2 - Get a Hobby or Join a Club

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Hobbies and after work clubs can be refreshingThe great thing about Hobbies, is they can completely take your mind away from your work because they tend to be very different from your day to day work.

o Mix with different peopleIf you join a club you will probably be with a different set of people, with different characters. That in addition to the challenge, will definitely take your mind off work.

Page 8: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

3 - Help a local Charity

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Charities do amazing workThey are literally tens of thousands of charities which do fantastic work to help your Local community and people in need. They will definitely appreciate your help.

o Become closer to your communityBy helping a Local Charity, you will know more about what is happening in your local Community and you will feel a part of it even more.

o Giving to a great cause, is great!

Page 9: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

4 - Make time for Family and Friends

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Your Family and Friends need you more than your work

There is not much more to say…

Page 10: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

5 - Ask your Employer

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Your Employer wants to make you happyEmployers know that happy employees = more productive = healthy company = more profits. So Ask whether you could work flexibly, or from home sometime. They might surprise you

o Talk with your HR/ Line manager

Find out what your HR Policies and Procedures are around work life balance.

o The government recently passed legislation to allow all employees to ask their employers for Flexible working

https://www.gov.uk/flexible-working/overview

Page 11: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

6 - Reduce your Hours

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Work LessBy working less hours you will hopefully have more time to do things in life which

fulfil you.

o Option 1Reduce the number of days you work so from 5 to 4 days if you can afford it. Do the

maths, maybe you are not far off.

o Option 2Take less overtime, attempt to leave work no more than 30 minutes after your

contracted hours.

Page 12: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

7 - Buy less

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

o Are you working more, to buy more.Look around your garage, house, office you probably have lot’s of “things” you don’t need or use but cost you big bucks. Maybe next time think twice before you wave your contactless card.

oNeed vs WantIt’s hard to distinguish between the two, because we all deserve a “want” now and again. But always buying want we want can be costly and this will mean we need to work even harder to sustain it. This in turn means less of the “Life” balance.

o Buying less = less overtime = more time at home

Page 13: 7 ways to improve your Work Life Balance

Thank you

Find out what your peers are earning anonymously pay-gap.com

Pay-Gap.com is a platform which allows you to anonymously find out the Pay and Work Life Balance of your Peers in similar roles, without infringing on their privacy.

More @ www.pay-gap.com