Work And Family Gap Analysis

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In our current fast-paced and highly competitive working environment, members of the society are consequently stressed and enticed by money and wealth. People are sacrificing their family in pursuit of careers. Parents unintentionally but inadvertently and unwittingly spend lesser time with their children having much focus on their job commitments, resulting in a loss of work-life balance, family bonds and drifts in individual family members slowly creep in. The term work-life balance elucidate as harmonizing work and other parts of life, including family. Except, commonly there have always been a tendency of committing too much to their work, consequently, family time became almost to a point of nonexistent. Work and family time are overlapping …show more content…

(Blackie, 2013). Children may learn from bad influences, getting into trouble with the laws and young adults having the materialistic mindset thinking wealth is everything and neglecting their social lives. Thus, it’s essential for us to inquire into the root of the cause. This essay aims to explore and understand the efficacy of the working hours and days off in the office implemented by the government, extends of the damage impacted on families and their kids due to the work-family conflict and young adults with materialistic mindset are jeopardizing their social lives. The “ideal worker” image demands too much of the working parents and it’s causing work-family conflict. Base on the growing trend of white-collar workers in Singapore, the norm of an average office worker is traditionally a 9AM to 6PM job. The maximum hours allowed per day implemented by …show more content…

(Grougiou & George, 2013). As a child, watching their parents so fixated on their job commitment, it imprints an image of high importance on jobs and that leads them to have the mentality that a “good life” is a “goods life” hence, as they grow, they prioritize they job commitment as first. Often the child turns out to be even more fixated and being more of a workaholic than their parents, trying to live up to the standard of their parents they imagined as a child. Young adults tend to see their family, friends or peers as having to a lesser extent and in number correspondence foundation as they constantly obsess over their work, to a point of obstruction with whatever is left in their life. A longitudinal study of young adults shows an astounding increase in the adoption of materialistic mindset and values. This causes them to forgo and sacrifice their family and friendship for the never-ending pursuit of material lifestyle and self-interest. (Korton, 1999). There is a tendency where young adults jeopardize their life outside of their work life chasing after the “riches and wealth”. (Hazan, Shaver, & Phillip). Young adults need to reevaluate their priorities and prioritize for their family and friends to have a healthy balance in

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