A Study on Work-Life Balance of Employees at Federal Bank Ltd., Kothrud Pune

In order to sustain in the competitive world, people are trying their level best to excel at their work place. But at the same time, they are expected to take care of their family and dependents. Employees keep on juggling their professional and personal life. They try hard to maintain a balance between their professional and personal life but fail to do so as expectations from both workplace and family are never-ending which ultimately lead to Work-Life imbalance. The concept of Work-Life balance is nothing but the separation that an employee does between his work-life and personal life. Earlier this, problem was faced by the people belonging to medical and police services but now-a-days, this problem has become a common phenomenon.

The efficiency of any organization depends upon the productivity of its employees. The productivity of an employee is directly linked with his Work-Life Balance. Hence, now-a-days most of the organizations are taking efforts to enable their employees to have a proper Work-Life Balance.

This paper is based on the study of Work-Life Balance of the employees in banking industry. The data for the research is collected from the employees of Federal Bank Ltd. Kothrud Branch Pune. The sample size for the study is 21 employees. After the research, it has been found that employees in the banks have problems of Work-Life Balance and organizations need to take this issue seriously and come up with some Work-Life Balance strategies so as to help their employees to maintain a Balanced Work-Life Balance.