[In progress] [665] [Effect of WLB on organizational performance in Indian IT firms] [Background]
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Background
Work-life balance(WLB) refers to establishing an equilibrium between work and personal domains of life. As IT sectors in India today continue to grow, to meet organization demands employees tend to overwork and struggle to balance work and personal needs. Companies increase workhours (2,195 hours/year), employees receive higher workload and face stringent deadlines for task completion resulting in high stress, low well-being and overall dissatisfaction (Babu & Sahayam, 2024). The rapid pace of technology in the IT industry has further exacerbated these difficulties. Employees are now subjected to receive frequent work related phone calls after standard hours in order to maintain a constant face of availability and meet client demands. This is also called technostress and studies show that this practice has led to an increase in work-home conflicts and employees find it hard to psychologically detach from their jobs (Derks & Bakker, 2012 as cited in Srinivasan & Kumar,2025). This report will review some key theoretical frameworks to understand the importance of WLB and its effect on organisational performance. Key three frameworks this report will be focusing on are Spillover theory, Boundary Theory and the JD-R model.
When discussing the idea of WBL, spillover theory explains how attitudes from one domain can overflow into another domain. For example, negative spillovers like stress from the workplace can transfer into personal life and vice versa, making it hard for individuals to manage both work and personal demands. Spillovers can also be positive where job resources and benefits can increase satisfaction which can be reflected in personal life as well (Srinivas & Battu , 2025). Despite the high growth rate of IT firms in India, they observe less employee commitment levels and find the nature of the job stressful as companies fail to integrate necessary benefits and flexibility. Such practices do not allow employees to manage demands of different domains resulting in technostress and underdeveloped work-life balance management (Lohith, 2018).
The key to maintaining WLB in such fast paced industries is strengthening the boundary between the two domains. Boundary-theory explains the method in which individuals create boundaries to protect mental stability and efficiently manage demands from different areas of their life. There are three types of boundaries employees can choose to maintain: temporal, physical and psychological and each boundary. Even though they are different, they help in simplification of different environments (Clark, 2000 as cited in Pradhan,2026). For many IT employees, maintaining a strict boundary has become increasingly difficult due to extended working hours and commuting with overseas clients at odd timings, resulting in boundary blurring which has shown to increase mental-health issues due to less dedicated time for families (Srinivasan & Kumar,2025).
Jobs can be classified into two divisions when associated with its risk factors: Job demands and job resources. Job demands refer to the physical, psychological or social requirements of an organisation which include efforts and skills to be applied in workplaces and they come with certain costs that can drain an employee such as frequent interaction with clients and long working hours (Bakker & Demerouti,2006). Job demands may not always have to be negative but without the usage of job resources it can lead to burnout. Psychological wellbeing of IT employees are linked to resources such as work ability and job satisfaction. When these resources are present, it has shown increased work-related quality of life , reducing stress and deteriorating conditions(Anandapadmanabhan et al.,2025). To maintain such resources, organizations are to integrate practices such as managerial support, flexibility and ability to exercise work-life balance to improve efficiency of employees at work-places (Pasumarti,2019).
The process of reviewing these theories characterize the influence of WLB on employees and its impact on the organisation. This helps establish the overall key concepts to explain the problem of WLB in IT sectors in India. This report will look into wider literature and various peer-reviewed studies that help expand and substantiate these theories. All research presented in this report follows APA 7th edition citation guidelines as required by academic standards.
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