Work-Life Balance and Job Satisfaction: An Assessment of Pakistan’s Banking Sector

Abstract

The intense competition in Pakistani industries and rapid changes in work environment has been a cause of several compromises on other important fronts like cutting off from family and friends. Assuming work/life imbalance prevails more in developing countries like Pakistan along with high level of work pressures. This study examines and tests the impact of work life balance and job satisfaction on person’s social life as well as personal life. The results indicate that most of the employees are not satisfied their work-life balance as more time is spent at work with is much more than the official duty timings. The main reason of the time which employees want is to have their Work Life Balance. The study further illustrates that work life balance varies as the change of gender as well as marital status and it differs from person to person.

Keywords: Work life balance, work life conflict, Pakistani commercial banks.