@article{leovaridis2015aspects,
  title = {Aspects Regarding Work-Life Balance of High-Skilled Employees in Some Romanian Services Sectors},
  author = {Cristina Leovaridis and Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu},
  year = 2015,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JEERBE/2015/969136/},
  journal = {Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics},
  volume = 2015 (2015),
  pages = 15,
  doi = 10.5171/2015.969136,
  abstract = {The present paper intends to achieve a comparison regarding work-life balance of high-skilled employees in five services sectors in Romania: advertising-marketing, IT&C, financial-banking, research & development, higher education. The research methodology is specific to a qualitative research, consisting of in-depth face-to-face interviews with high-skilled employees without managerial functions and managers of the above mentioned five sectors services. The paper begins with a literature review on a significant dimension of the employees’ life quality, specifically the work-life balance, followed by a comparative statistical data analysis on the current situation of work-life balance in European countries. The results of the conducted field research showed that regarding work-life balance related to the necessity to provide some hours of one’s free time in order to finish work duties, the best situation  was found in IT&C sector and R&D sector (where none of the interviewees works in his free time and the employees’ personal lives are not affected), followed by banking sector, where half of the interviewees work in their free time, in order to finish their tasks, then higher-education sector, where the majority claims to be working frequently after finishing teaching, in order to solve work tasks — preparing lectures, research or administrative activities, coordinating theses, which affects their personal life, and the advertising sector, with two-thirds of respondents stated that they work in their free time, after hours, which affects their personal lives.},
  keywords = {work-life balance, high-skilled employees, services sector.},
  note = Article ID: 969136
}