How do you maintain work life balance?

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  Bijay Krishna Nandi

  Here are my few suggestions:
  

  1. spend less time to get ready for office. You wake up at 6-7 and taking more than 1hr to get ready is hard to digest.
  2. If it takes 1.5 hrs to reach office, traffic be the reason, choose to stay near to your office area. IT companies are generally located in developed cities, so its not hard to find a home near to office.
  3. If you cant read books during the journey then I would suggest you to jump into a healthy conversation with your co-traveller. any topic like your work related, politics(my suggestion), sports, biography, etc.
  4. here comes the passion, you just need to explore it within yourself and do it with dedication as it gives immense pleasure to yourself than anything.
  5. Apart from these a very obvious solution is outing on weekends than being FEVIQICKED to your bed.

  What I feel is Work-Life balance is hypothetical and it depends on your approach in work and life. if we strive for fun at work then we don't need to maintain a balance in our work and life...
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  Anoop Kumar

  I have been in situation for 7-8 months, with hectic schedule of office. Here what I learned.
  
  

  • You should not be living at place which take more than 30 min to office. If it the case, like you have your own house and can't relocate. Spend time to read books. I have read over 5-6 books in a year by just in cab for 30min daily, I know it's slow but utilizing in something is better than nothing. Otherwise just calculate if your commute time is >1 hour, you are wasting 45 hours per month.

  • Working extra hours to increase productivity is illusion. Never work for extra hours to make your impression or if you think you are increasing your productivity. In fact after a week or two, your productivity will start declining. You work with your brain, which needs to relax from regular work.
  • Never ever bring office sh*t to home: Don't keep office thoughts after leaving office. Come home have fun with family, friends or roommates.

  If office is too much pressurizing, better, start working of your resume. Why to spend your life hours just for the sake of few cents 😀
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  My case which i am currently following since few months, a day or two being exceptions.
  I wake up at 8 Am.
  I will help my wife cook breakfast and lunch, I will play with my kid until 11.30 Am.
  I will get ready to office and start by 12 PM.
  Reach office by 12.45 PM.
  Work or meeting or anything till 2PM.
  Lunch till 2.20 pm
  work or meeting or anything till 5 pm.
  then calls , or some more work till 8 pm
  Start home and reach by 9 PM at the max.
  Then spend time with family, and they sleep at 11, if i have any pending work i will do it after 11 PM.
  
  I will travel to office by car, if its by bus its more or less same time (add 15 mins at the max).
  
  As I am travelling by car, i will call random friends everyday and talk to them and will stay in touch. and will talk to my parents while going back.
  
  Somehow, I am not missing work - life balance or missing anything by following this schedule.
  
  Forgot to mention - I take 1 or 2 tea breaks which doesnt last more than 10 mins.
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  I am new to this corporate world. But one thing I learnt in this short period is "I am the person ho makes my work - Life balance go imbalance".
  
  When Given a responsibility If I decide to spend the productive work hours in my desk giving my best shot, I can very well finish the task assigned before COB. No one is over burdened it is our own thinking and laziness that makes our nights longer in office than in our house.
  
  But there will be a few days that are exceptions, We can't rate the entire office life just because we spent a few days longer in office.