With growing work stress and awareness about the Work-life balance (WLB) and Mental Health, WLB has been one of the most discussed topics in both professional business practice and academic research in the last few years. WLB has become a popular research area of interest in different fields of study such as sociology, psychology, HRM, organization studies, and gender studies. Many research has been carried out in trying to explain the correlation between work and family life and related WLB to organisation policies, organisation culture, HR management, work commitment, absenteeism, gender equality, family life, and many more. The majority of the studies on this topic were carried out in the United Stated, Australia and New Zealand but now a lot of people are also working on this topic.

Objectives Objectives of this study involve finding answers to the following questions: How work-life balance impacts the wellbeing of employees? Is there any relation between the WLB and the performance of the employees? Is there any correlation between WLB and family satisfaction? Is there any correlation between WLB and psychological distress? Scope of Study The scope of the study has been limited to finding the impact of the WLB on the working class in India only. The study is conducted based on the response of a questionnaire and doing percentage analysis of the response Respondent’s Profile Gender: As seen in the below pie chart we can see that 23.3% respondents are female and 76.7% are the male. Figure: Gender Distribution of Respondents Age: Majority of the respondents were from the age group of 26-30 years which constitute 56.7% of the total respondents followed by 31-35 years age group which constitutes 20% then 20-25 Years constitutes 10%. Nature of Organization: The responses were collected from only working people and we received responses from employees of all kinds of organizations. Majority of the respondents came from MNC companies which constituted 50% of the total respondents, 33% respondents come from some established Indian company, 10% from startups and 7% from government organizations. Marital Status: Half of the respondents were married and remaining were unmarried. Defendants: Since majority of the respondents were quite young with half of them unmarried therefore majority 46.7% have no dependents on them. 23.3% of the respondents mentioned their parents as their defendants, 13.3% indicated their spouse and children as their dependent, 10% as their spouse only and remaining said their parents, spouse and children all are dependent on them. Nature of Employment: All our respondents were full time employees of their organization. RESULTS AND FINDINGS We have found from the various literatures that there are correlations between the WLB and organization’s performance, employee satisfaction, work satisfaction and mental health. We collected data to study the WLB among the working class of Indians. In order to analyse 15 key questioned were framed and floated by the responses in a self completing survey form. Let us analyse the responses of each question one by one to understand the WLB and how it impacts the employees. In the table 4.1 we have presented the summary of the correlation statistics based on the 13 questions asked. It shows the mean and standard deviation of all the questions in which we assigned value 5 to the “Always” and 1 to “Never”. Table 4.1: Summary Statistics (Correlation) Variables Observations Obs. with missing data Obs. without missing data Minimum Maximum Mean Std. deviation Do you normally work more than 5 days in a week? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.581 1.167 Do you normally work more than 10 hours in a day? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.419 1.275 Do you feel you are not able to balance your work & personal life? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.258 0.886 Do you work in shifts? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 1.935 1.279 Do you bring work home with you? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 2.871 1.397 Do you find yourself unable to spend enough time with your family/friends? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.323 1.004 Do you find time to exercise, eat properly and keep yourself healthy? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.194 1.265 Do you get adequate sleep most nights? 62.000 0.000 62.000 2.000 5.000 3.290 0.894 Do you ever feel tired or depressed because of work? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 4.000 2.935 0.765 Do you feel that your managers are supporting? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.613 1.246 Are you satisfied with your current work profile and company? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.226 1.193 How frequently you think of leaving your job? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 5.000 3.032 1.318 Do you delegate your work to others? 62.000 0.000 62.000 1.000 4.000 2.548 1.019 In the table 4.2 we have presented the correlation matrix between all the 13 parameters on which we asked the question. Table 4.2: Correlation Matrix with a significance level alpha=0.05 Variables Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q1 1 0.737 0.455 0.069 0.429 0.341 -0.033 -0.070 0.446 -0.068 0.022 0.137 0.362 Q2 0.737 1 0.425 0.238 0.344 0.226 0.233 0.122 0.230 0.063 0.066 0.265 0.199 Q3 0.455 0.425 1 0.015 0.372 0.458 0.042 -0.179 0.267 -0.324 -0.056 0.217 0.022 Q4 0.069 0.238 0.015 1 -0.078 0.170 0.190 -0.098 0.297 -0.016 -0.141 0.021 -0.199 Q5 0.429 0.344 0.372 -0.078 1 0.334 0.051 -0.075 0.176 -0.218 -0.100 -0.105 0.212 Q6 0.341 0.226 0.458 0.170 0.334 1 -0.024 -0.069 0.454 -0.187 -0.226 0.066 0.017 Q7 -0.033 0.233 0.042 0.190 0.051 -0.024 1 0.616 -0.427 0.443 0.383 0.153 0.120 Q8 -0.070 0.122 -0.179 -0.098 -0.075 -0.069 0.616 1 -0.451 0.485 0.245 0.270 0.182 Q9 0.446 0.230 0.267 0.297 0.176 0.454 -0.427 -0.451 1 -0.267 -0.199 0.165 -0.038 Q10 -0.068 0.063 -0.324 -0.016 -0.218 -0.187 0.443 0.485 -0.267 1 0.567 -0.152 0.170 Q11 0.022 0.066 -0.056 -0.141 -0.100 -0.226 0.383 0.245 -0.199 0.567 1 -0.317 -0.265 Q12 0.137 0.265 0.217 0.021 -0.105 0.066 0.153 0.270 0.165 -0.152 -0.317 1 0.158 Q13 0.362 0.199 0.022 -0.199 0.212 0.017 0.120 0.182 -0.038 0.170 -0.265 0.158 1 Question 1: Does your company have a separate policy for work-life balance? This has strong correlation between the Question 3 which directly indicated poor WLB. From the figure 4.1 we can see that although there has been lots of talks about WLB in recent times but in India still more than 65% of the organizations doesn’t even have any WLB policy. In our survey only 16.7% respondents confirmed WLB policy in their organization and 16.7% indicated that they are not aware if their organization have any WLB or not.

Question 2: Does your organization try to spread awareness about mental health among the employees? Figure 4.2 shows that although most organizations don’t have a separate WLB policy (Fig 4.1) but most of them are trying to spread awareness about mental health. 62.5% of our respondents confirm that their organization is taking steps to spread awareness about the mental wellbeing and a substantial 31.3% respondents denied any awareness initiative by their organization. 6.2% respondents said that they don’t have any knowledge whether their organization try to spread awareness about mental health or not. Question 3: Do you normally work more than 5 days in a week? In western countries all organizations have only 5 days or even 4 days working policies but our survey confirms that even those working in MNC in India work more than 5 days in a week. some does it always (29%), some often (22.6%), Some does it sometimes (29%) and some rarely (16.1%) but almost everyone have worked more than 6 days a week. Question 4: Do you normally work more than 10 hours in a day? More than 90% of the respondents have confirmed working for more than 10Hrs in the office. 25.8% always work for more than 10hrs, 22.6% often work for more than 10%, 29% said they work overtime sometimes and 12.9% said they rarely work for more than 10hrs. Only 9.7% said that they never work more than 10hrs in the office.