Better work-life balance for all employees starts with managers

"It’s about how you manage humans that make them happy and if you do that, everything else falls into place," says HR expert

Business leaders are doing everything they can to promote work-life balance as a priority for staff, a significant benefit to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. Picture: iStock

Right since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, traditional business hours have somewhat gone out the window with many of us working well into the evening and some at the weekends depending on family schedules.

At this time of tremendous transition, work-life balance is more important than ever and business leaders have a critical responsibility to be deliberate and explicit about expectations of availability, and to define exactly what ‘business hours’ means to your organisation.