Assessing Work-Life Balance among IT & ITeS Women Professionals

Work life balance becoming an area of growing concern in the Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology Enabled Services sector (ITeS). The present paper provides a greater understanding of the work-life balance of women employees in IT and ITeS industries. An experiential survey of 80 IT employees and 80 ITeS employees was carried out. Both the sub-sectors were evaluated on five sub-scales- workload and responsibility, work environment, feelings about work, family dependents and absence from work. The sector wise regression analysis demonstrated that feelings about work, family dependents and absence from work are strong contributors to a sense of balance for an employee. However, no significant relationship has been obtained between work environment and work-life