A Study on Work Life Balance of Working Couples in Private Sector Organizations

Work Life Balance (WLB) was not a great topic of discussion until recently, as there was an existence of typical psychological barrier in the society. The barrier has two different dimensions. Main dimension was obviously related to who are the earning members of the household and who will take care of the household. The male dominated society developed an atmosphere where male worked to earn money and the female members would take care of the household. But the situation has taken its own shape, with increasing pressure of globalized environment where both the members of the household are working to make their livelihood more meaningful. The traditional joint family system, which was pre – dominant in most of the developing countries including India, has also witnessed the sudden flux of working couple to maintain the increasing cost of living.