14Apr 2020

A RESEARCH ONWORK-LIFE BALANCE (WLB) INITIATIVES AND WORKLOADIMPACT TOFINANCE PROFESSIONALSIN MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES

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Work-Life Balance is one of the important things for the employees as it will be a deciding factor to boost their work morale and satisfaction. Work-Life Balance definition actually varies over time and also to different people, but as per Sanfilippo (2020) it isdefined as it is a state of equilibrium where a person equally prioritizes the demand on their career and demand on their personal life. Work-Life Balance is applicable to everyone but this study will focus more on work-life balance of Finance Professionals who are working in Makati City, Philippines. This paper employed quantitative research and revealed that workload directly impacts to work-life balance status of Finance employees in Makati. Moreover, this study tells us how the workload impacts the well-being of staff which through rendering overtime work instead of spending those time with their loved ones. Toresolve such issues, the company and its leadership team need to be aware of workload segregation hence to take action to preventincrease of workload and balance personal-work betweenstaffs.


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[Ernesto S. Nogoy Jr. (2020); A RESEARCH ONWORK-LIFE BALANCE (WLB) INITIATIVES AND WORKLOADIMPACT TOFINANCE PROFESSIONALSIN MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES Int. J. of Adv. Res. 8 (Apr). 134-139] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Ernesto S. Nogoy Jr.
Polytechnic University of the Philippines

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/10756      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/10756