Bangalore: As the world is becoming tougher day by day, the people are experiencing more pressure every day. It has become difficult especially for the working people to manage both their home work as well as their office work. But this can’t be sorted out so easily because, at the present day situation it has become very necessary for both men and women to go out and work to earn for their comfortable future life. However, this work-life balance doesn’t really mean that it is an equal balance because; it is pretty hard to schedule both the lives with equal importance. It is not possible to give sufficient time for both your office work and house work at a time, and because of that many employees will be in a confused situation in deciding on which to give more prominence.But in a survey conducted by Mercer, a consulting, outsourcing and investments company, more women in the U.S. seemed to have a better work life balance.

Flexibility is very much needed to maintain a perfect work life balance. People are more conscious while selecting the perfect job which helps them in maintaining both their lives. In the 2011 report released on the “Best Countries to Work- Life Balance” by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, you can see that all the top 10 countries are of the European countries with Denmark topping the list followed by Denmark, Norway, Netherland, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland etc. In Denmark, there are only 2 percent of the employees who work for long hours, they have around 16.31 hours time to spend their leisure time and do their personal work. But there was nothing surprising in that report when it came to the least nation for work-life balance as it was none other than the United States. It was reported that U.S. was the only OECD nation without a national paid parental leave policy. Around 11 percent of the employees in that country worked for long hours and the time they got to spend for their personal work was just about 15.13 hours which was very little time when compared to other OECD nations mentioned in the list.