Work-life balance policies : Are they doing more harm than good?

The work-life balance policies provide improved flexibility and control over work hours for employees through part-time works, reduced work hours, averaging hours, job sharing, and tele working. The reshaping of interface between public and private lives has formed the basis for the dominance of capitalism over other economical systems and the survival and reinforcement of patriarchy as a dominant social system. The focus of studies is based on the employees who take advantage of work-life policies and the supervisors who grant those provisions to the employees. The studies state that the managers provide work-life policies to female employees in non-managerial positions for child-rearing purposes. The supervisor clarifies that care for dependants is the only valid reasons to challenge the priority of paid over private life when applying for work-life policies. The work-life balance policies for organized workplace is achieved by redefining the work-place interface.C