Work Life Balance Initiative for LIC Employees

Recently it was declared that the second and the forth Saturday of the every month will be an off day for all Government bank employees with effect from September 2015. Soon after this decision, the management of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and the associated trade unions after fifteen rounds of joint meetings has arrived at the final agreement that the LIC employees will also enjoy the benefit of alternative Saturdays off.

Not only this, the salary also has been hiked to 15 percent out of which 13.5 percent would be in the basic pay and the remaining 1.5 percent in HRA, CCA (city compensation allowance) and daily commuting allowance

This initiative is expected to increase the work life balance among the LIC employees thus taking the employees to the next level of engagement towards the work and the organisation.

Employee Engagement Initiative to build the team spirit and morale by InMobi

InMobi, a leading company in the mobile advertisement industry has started an employee engagement initiative called 'Live. Laugh. Leap.'  Under this program 4 clubs have been formed which will encourage the employees to form their own teams based on their common passion and interest across the organisation and plan the get together activity or outing program  at their own cost.

The four clubs formed are Runners' Club, Cycling Club, The Nomads Travel Club and the Bar Raisers' Club

• Runners' Club- This club is for the employees who love jogging
• Cycling Club -This club is for those who like the feel of enjoying cycle rides.
• Nomads Travel Club is for those would like to explore remote and far way destinations from the official environment.
• Bar Raisers' Club aims to invite the employee who takes pleasures in visiting places with good food and drink

Such initiatives do not force the employees to join on mandatory manner in official parties and get together gatherings. Here they have the freedom to form their own team and liked minded employees who can share their passions and have lively conversations among them, thereby boosting the team morale and creating best friends at work place.

Employee Engagement Post Maternity via Flexi Timing and Location at Genpact

Genpact, one of the largest BPO in India has 400 to 500 women employees who take maternity leave annually and post maternity majority of them found it difficult to return back to the work since they had to face the challenge in maintaining a balance between the family and professional responsibility.

Hence Genpact has come out with 'Returning Moms Programme', an initiative to engage the female employees post maternity phase where they can select the shift timings according to their choice and convenience.  Not only this, the new mothers can also start working from the nearest branch of the organisation from their residence. This initiative will definitely encourage and engage more women employees to return back for their second innings.

Under this program, Genpact already has facilities such as day care for employee’s children and stock parking i.e reserved space in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.

IN-HOUSE INCUBATION CENTER- An Unique Employee Engagement Tool by SimpliLearn.com

Simplilearn.com, an e-commerce company which provides professional certification opportunities has an attrition rate of 18%. It had witnessed that 15% of the employees use to quit Simplilearn to start their own venture but rarely could they be successful in their ventures. Hence the organisation came up with an idea of setting up an incubation center, where the employees with an entrepreneurial spirit will get an opportunity on work on their idea and at the same time get mentored within the organisation. Every year during February and August, four ideas will be screened, selected and converted into product or service within 90 days. Simplilearn will invest up to Rs.30 lacs into each team to execute and transform the idea into reality.

Organisation such as Google has a best practice allowing their employees to work 20% of their time on the project of their choice. In fact Gmail and Google News is an outcome of such best practice.