I actually don't understand when people say work life balance is poor what does that mean exactly? If working hours exceed 8 hrs then is that poor work life balance or are there any other factors as well? Just curious to know 🙂

Work-life balance is poor when; • Your day ends later than it ideally should. • You often find yourself stuck in meetings which aren’t very productive. • You often work on weekends (and/or late nights). • Getting leaves is next to impossible. Basically company pays a lot of money but doesn’t give you enough time to spend it. 🙂

I was talking to a friend yesterday and these are some things that she shared. • Extreme load, Dumping new projects on inexperienced people • She was transferred to a new team using completely new tools and is under a lot of pressure to deliver on time, without anyone to guide • Apart from the morning standup, they have a call at 6PM where they are given tasks they have to complete by next morning. • She has to apply for half day leave to take her 10month old son to the doctor, at 4PM in the evening!! • Work start from 9 and lasts many times after midnight, even weekends • Everyone in the team is exhausted and burned out. • She's under so much load that she can't even prepare for a good interview to get out of the hell hole. Such a vicious circle! It was really sad to hear the entire story. So with all this, her personal life is out of balance as they are not able to attend any family functions, can't spend enough time with partner or her baby, etc. All this for around 5-6LPA too and from one of India's "top" IT company.. 😑

One shall forced to work round the clock without caring his health and paying for it.

It's poor when you can't do what you want to do because your work leaves little time and energy for those things.