Wellness Lecture:

How to have a Healthy Work-

life Balance in the New
Normal

Dr. Ira Hope Salonga-Militante

Occupational Health Physician
Contents:
Objectives

iscuss concepts about Work/Life Balance

xplore related concepts affecting Work/Life

Balance

cquire knowledge about coping skills that will

help in work/life balance during the pandemic
and after the pandemic
Psychological impact of COVID-19
pandemic in the Philippines

Tee, Michael L et al. “Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.”  Journal of
affective disorders vol. 277 (2020): 379-391. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.043
Psychological impact of COVID-19
pandemic in the Philippines

Tee, Michael L et al. “Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.”  Journal of
affective disorders vol. 277 (2020): 379-391. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.043
 What is Work/Life Balance?

Work-life balance (WLB) denotes

how individuals see and experience
working well with professional and
personal responsibilities in
consonance with the personal
lifestyle, values, and goals (Haar,
2013)
 Work-life balance is a concept gaining accelerated
importance and realization amongst individuals (Bouzari &
Karatepe, 2020; Kelliher et al., 2019; Barber et al., 2019).

Work-life balance has a significant role in boost quality of

work (Bhende et al., 2020), satisfaction, and psychological
well-being (Haider et al., 2018), employee commitment
(Hofmann & Stokburger-Sauer, 2017), social life (Ola et
al., 2019) and so forth.
Work/Life Balance according to
Generations
Work-life
balance. Legal
basis
Importance of Work/Life Balance
What is a healthy work/life balance?
Factors of a healthy professional life
Factors of a healthy professional life
Advantages of Home Office
Factors of a healthy professional life
Factors of a healthy professional life

Company benefits
Factors of a healthy private life

their colleagues their new social anchor

points
Factors of a healthy private life

A stressful job that may require a lot of

overtime and is exhausting can have
a negative impact on one’s dating life.
Factors of a healthy private life
Age group Recommend
ation
School-age 9-11 hours
children
Teenagers 8-10 hours

Adults 7-9 hours

Adults over 7-8 hours

Bedtime 65 years old Exercise
routine Sleeping
hours
It is no easy task to achieve work-life balance in today’s
unpredictable and fast-paced business world.
Symptoms of Work Life imbalance
Achieving Work-Life Balance During the
Covid-19 Pandemic
Achieving Work-Life Balance During the
Covid-19 Pandemic
Achieving Work-Life Balance During the
Covid-19 Pandemic
Achieving Work-Life Balance During the
Covid-19 Pandemic
Work-Life Integration
n alternative concept that takes a slightly more modern approach to
the idea of a work-life balance.

t focuses on a seamless combination of one’s personal and

professional life rather than the separation or division of the two
elements

lso called: Work-Life Effectiveness

Work Life Integration Amid The Pandemic
Anna Cox, a professor of human-computer interaction at
UCL, it means “feeling in control of how you balance the
various demands of all aspects of life to enable wellbeing
and avoid illness”. It should involve “happiness, fulfilment
and job satisfaction”.
Ways to achieve a balance during the
coronarivus pandemic
Ways to achieve a balance during the
coronarivus pandemic
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