Work/life programs have the potential to significantly
improve employee morale, reduce absenteeism, and
retain organizational knowledge, particularly during difficult
economic times. In today’s global marketplace,
as companies aim to reduce costs, it falls to the
human resource professional to understand the critical
issues of work/life balance and champion
work/life programs. Be it employees whose family
members and/or friends are called to serve their
country, single mothers who are trying to raise their
children and make a living, Generation X and Y
employees who value their personal time, couples
struggling to manage dual-career marriages, or companies
losing critical knowledge when employees leave
for other opportunities, work/life programs offer a
win-win situation for employers and employees.
การเพิ่มระดับของความเครียดอาจทำให้ขวัญและกำลังใจของพนักงานลดลง, ประสิทธิภาพในการทำงานลดลง รวมทั้งความพึงพอใจในการทำงานลดลง ต่ำอย่างรวดเร็ว นอกจากนี้บางอาการอาจเกี่ยวข้องโดยตรงต่อความสามารถในการทำงานในสภาพแวดล้อมการทำงานที่มีการละเมิดการใช้เวลาป่วย,การขาดงานเรื้อรัง,การหลีกเลี่ยงงานและความรุนแรงในสถานที่ทำงาน
ประสิทธิภาพ และลดงานความพึงพอใจ บางin moderate amounts stress can
be benign, even beneficial, and most people are
equipped to deal with it. However, increasing levels of
stress can rapidly lead to low employee morale, poor
productivity, and decreasing job satisfaction. Some of
the specific symptoms that relate directly to productivity
in the work environment are abuse of sick time,
cheating, chronic absenteeism, distrust, embezzlement,
organizational sabotage, tardiness, task avoidance,
and violence in the workplace(Lockwood 2003).
Different employee may have to work in different ways for completion of their tasks and responsibilities in an organization. Depending on the requirements, excessive working hours could be subdivided into various categories. Some of them are mentioned as following: