Rapid growth of industrial sector has opened a new dimension on daily work and influence the workers attitude, life style, thinking and family daily life. Basically, WLB is about time management process between their work, family, and daily life. Daily heavily work constrain have been a major contribution pressure to workers in term of mind focus, health, motivations and sometimes to depression point. Work pressure also give impact to family happiness and relationship and worse to family violence. All this together will drop the performance of workers and high turnover. Some of the worst case scenario it will be a suicide due to mental pressure cause to work pressure environment. With the GEW, it’s going to give comfortable place of work with health mind, happiness and toward high performance include balance health life with family and work. There is some new style of WLB can be implement to the work place to get higher thinking order with balance of work.
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