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The Importance of Work-life Balance

Maintaining a work-life balance in today’s economic climate is no easy task. As the nature of paid work has shifted in favour of efficiency, the “intensification of work” has risen.

Today’s work demands more time, skill and energy and thus, has impeded our ability to achieve a work-life balance.

Debates about work-life balance have come to prominence as the overwork culture forces us to question the extent that paid work is worth the stress as well as the imbalance it imposes.

As The Department of Trade and Industry expresses,

“Work-life balance isn’t only about families and child care. Nor is it about working less. It’s about working “smart”. About being fresh enough to give you all you need for both work and home, without jeopardising one for the other”.

As a result of the intensification of work in today’s always-on society, social capital and community participation has declined.

The increased workload which deprives people of leisure time, a sense of connectedness and relaxation has effected human sustainability.

Capitalise On Your Time

We’ve been working closely with the life sciences sector recently and this industry is no exception from the discussion above.

The development and delivery of a product demands constant supervision and multi-site management which is extremely time-consuming.

Our vision is to offer as much automation in our platform as possible, alleviating some of the burden of having to manually collect environmental storage data.

This is our idea of ‘working smart’ and we employ automation in everything we do at Hark and is our aspiration for our clients and for our own company.

Jordan Appleson
Jordan Appleson

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