Work-life Balance, Vedic Triggers and Brainstorming

About a year back we did a brainstorming session using Vedic Triggers on HOW TO CREATE WORK_LIFE BALANCE facilitated by Karthik. Just reproducing the results below:

INITIAL IDEAS W/O TRIGGERS
•Let Office be Open 24 hours (Flexi-hours – Put in 45 Hours a week)
•Tele-working – Allow all to work from home
•Make “Work” “Life” = Come to work with Life (spouse kids) – Let Work become Life
•Force people to leave office everyday after they have continuously put 10 hours – Office Ejection Seat
•Make work Fun -> Can games be used as a process to develop work?
•For each person – let him/her decide Life and work and develop his own plan to work and life

Vedic Trigger – One Less than Before

•Do a complete Value stream on yourself for a week or two – Eliminate the least important activity systematically from the activities – One Less wsteful activity per week – e.g. watching TV
•Look at # of meetings in your workplace -> can we reduce one meeting less per day
•Minimize Ad-hoc interventions to other and avoid to yourself also

Vedic Principle – Turn it Around

•Create work life Imbalance – For one week work for 24 hrs/day and next week live life 24 hrs/day
•Time/Activities in Life where work can be embedded and in work time/activities where life can be embedded
•Start working as if that is life and Live as if it is Work

Vedic Trigger – Join and Separate

•Can some elements of work and life be joined – Create Modular Life and Modular Work – Plug and Play Work-Life – in Time and Space
•Life during work – Find Life (friends, family) in work – Create your own group of like minded common friends – Start your company Jointly
•Separate work completely from life – Clear demarcated time points – For Life and Work