These days an increasing number of employees are facing competing demands between work and family life. It is not an easy task to juggle with the pressing needs of both career and personal life. There is constant need for reducing stress in work-life and maintain harmony in both professional and personal life. But it is observed that there is a mismatch between individual values and organizational policies leading to work life imbalance resulting in high rate of attrition. The mismatch between the role expectations and actual contribution at home and at work place leads to imbalance. This leads to poor individual and institutional growth. The research paper is intended to examine the factors that affect work and family life integration among a sample of respondents representing teaching profession. The researcher identified some factors that are important for an employee equally in personal and professional areas. They are: feeling of energy, spending quality time, fulfilling responsibilities, ability to co-ordinate & communicate, feeling of stress, economic problems, low self esteem, lack of social support, pressures, ability to attend social gatherings, ability to manage time, feeling of discrimination, handling unusual situations, blocked creativity & initiative and lack of motivation. The integration between work and family life helps employees in leading a happy and stress free life.
