Work-life balance – advantages of activities outdoors!

Work-life balance is very important to keep a healthy mind and body. In Portugal we practice a work-life balance culture and lifestyle daily.

Work-life balance is a state of equilibrium where you prioritize your career and personal life demands. However, achieving a work-life balance is a daily challenge. It can be tough to make time for family, friends, community participation, spirituality, personal growth, self-care, and other personal activities, and the demands of the workplace. Nowadays, it’s often to see work preceding everything else in our lives. It’s perfectly fine to want to be very successful in your career. Still, you have to do it in balance with everything else. If you push too hard, work too many hours, and live exclusively to work, you are setting aside our well-being.

Creating a harmonious work-life balance is critical to improve not only your physical, emotional, and mental well-being, but also to help your career. How? Work-life balance reduces your stress levels, and by doing so, you are more present at the moment. Therefore you become more focused and motivated. You must know that you are damaging your confidence and productivity if you don’t take care of yourself.

Embrace work-life balance and take care of yourself. As a result, you embrace a healthier lifestyle and work towards being your best version in all scopes of your life. Make sure to set your work boundaries for yourself and your colleagues, to align expectations and avoid burnout. When you leave the office, avoid thinking about upcoming projects or answering company emails, close that chapter so you can regenerate. While your job is essential, it shouldn’t be your entire life. You were an individual before taking your work position, so you should prioritize other activities or hobbies that really make you happy.

Teleperformance Club 

Employers can definitely help you achieve a work-life balance by instituting policies, activities, and actions that support you in pursuing a more balanced life. For example, having a flexible work schedule, paid time off plans, responsibly paced time and communication expectations, and company-sponsored family events and activities. That’s precisely how Teleperformance Portugal operates.

Having in mind the importance of work-life balance, Teleperformance Portugal created a club to provide free events and activities to our employees- TP Club. This club offers fantastic activities, such as surf classes with employees and their children, soft trekking to enjoy the most beautiful landscape or city views, where we can gather all our family and friends in an amazing company activity.

 During the pandemic outbreak, TP Club stopped the outdoor activities for everyone’s’ safety, opting to adapt their activities into digital activities that all employees could participate in the safety of their houses, while keeping social distancing. In the last couple of weeks, we have seen the coronavirus cases numbers decrease, and the government had some safety measures canceled. Since we have most of our employees working from home, TP Club decided it would be essential to come back with outdoor activities. This way, all employees could add some fun and healthy activities to their routine while TP ensures all the safety rules and standards recommended by the Portuguese National Health System. Check our recent TP Club activities right away!

Read about our commitment to work-life balance by promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace.