Journal of Commerce and Management Thought
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

Work Life Balance Initiatives of Information Technology Employees in Chennai

1Associate Professor, Post-Graduate Department of Commerce, Stella Maris College, Chennai

2Principal and Head, Post-Graduate & Research Department of Commerce, J.H.A. Agarsen College, Madhavaram, Chennai

3Assistant Professor, SRM-Business School, SRM University, City Campus, Chennai

*Email: ibrahim.tajuddin@gmail.com

Online published on 31 December, 2014.

Abstract

The WLB (Work Life Balance) initiatives identified under four heads of WLB initiatives being offered by the IT companies in Chennai to its employees were studied in terms of its presence or absence, the importance attached to by the respondents to the initiatives and gap between the actual and the expected values. Survey data was collected from 387 IT employees of premier IT industries in Chennai by non-random sampling. The WLB initiatives studied under four different heads were ranked based on the ‘presence’ and the quantum of ‘importance’ attached to each of the constituents by the respondents.

Keywords

Work life balance, IT employees, Gap analysis