Have you found it easy to maintain a work-life balance?

Hi!

I believe work-life balance is a key part of self-care when juggling the responsibilities of your workday, home life, and relationships with your family members and other loved ones. Work-life balance is a term that makes intuitive sense to many of us but it might be elusive to achieve sometimes.

Telling it from my point of view, I believe work-life balance is pretty easy to achieve as long as you organise and prioritise your tasks well (or better and better in time), and if you are mindful of the fact that there is no "perfect" work-life balance. For example, some days, I might focus more on work, while other days I might have more time and energy to take care of my personal life, spending more time with my partner or my friends. Therefore, I came aware of the fact that balance is achieved over time, not each day.

Now, at _VOIS I feel there’s a fairly lot of focus on this, from the HR side, with initiatives like Mental Health webinars and an Employee Assistance Programme (where every employee has a number of individual counselling sessions with specialised counsellors to help you out with psychological advice on various matters you might need assistance for). Also, we have this Smart Working policy, allowing us to work from home 100% of the time (with the possibility of going to the office if you feel like, or if there’s a team meeting organised, etc). On top of this, you can also choose to work remotely from abroad ( for a month maximum, each year) – to help you even more in finding a good balance between work and personal life.

In the end, I see it as a joint effort (between me and the employer) to somehow find a middle ground, a win-win situation in terms of ways of working, for a good work-life balance.

There’s always place for better, or more, but I believe _VOIS is on the right track with activities and initiatives towards work-life balance for its employees – it is also up to you to take advantage of what is being offered and make it work best for you.

Best,
Filip