The Effect of Work from Home and Work Load on Work-Life Balance of Generation X and Generation Y Employees

Abstract

Work-Life Balance (WLB) is a situation where a person manages to balance work, family life and other responsibilities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, which began by the end of 2019, many companies have implemented a Work from Home (WFH) policy that allows a worker to spend all his time at home and with a relatively light workload. The workforce today onward will be dominated by employees from generation X, namely people aged between 45 to 56 years and people from generation Y, who are 27-44 years of age. Each generation has its own characteristics of how they work and respond to work situations. This research was conducted in an effort to determine the impact of WFH and workload on Generation X and Generation Y. The population in this study were generation X and Y in Malang City, who had carried out WFH. Using the Slovin formula, the samples were 228 male and 178 female workers of Generation X and Generation Y. The results of this study indicated that WFH did not significantly affect the WLB of Generation X and Generation Y while workload had a significant effect on the WLB of Generation X and Generation Y.

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“…Work from home is no longer a modern concept as it has been brought to the cognizance of multiple disciplines for decades (Anderson & Kelliher, 2020;Vyas & Butakhieo, 2021). But most of this research treated work from home as a measure of ensuring work-life balance (Anderson & Kelliher, 2020;Irawanto et al, 2021) or a term used by freelancers (Pasla, Asepta, Widyaningrum, Pramesti, & Wicaksono, 2021). Work from home is defined by Bellmann and Hübler (2021) as remote working, teleworking, homework, home office work, mobile work, mobile work, and flexible work settings in which workers do not need to go to the workplace to perform their duties.…”

“…In other words, it is a person's ability to achieve a compromise between his or her job and non-work endeavors, especially social and familial duties (Best & Chinta, 2021). Pasla et al (2021) define, Work-Life balance as a state in which someone successfully juggles career, personal and family obligations. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is a collective endeavor, including companies, families, and other participants (Basak & Akter, 2022).…”

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“…Sayangnya, generasi ini lebih menyukai struktur dan disiplin serta cenderung tidak menyukai perubahan. Selanjutnya, generasi X terkenal karena kemampuannya menyeimbangkan pekerjaan dan kehidupan keluarga (Pasla, P., Asepta, U., Widyaningrum, S., Pramesti, M., & Wicaksono, 2021). Sedangkan, generasi Y yang lebih dikenal dengan sebutan generasi milenial ini dianggap sebagai pekerja yang paling mandiri dibandingkan dengan pekerja dari semua generasi (Sa'idah, I., Atmoko, A., 2021).…”