Ergonomics for Work-Life Balance: A Systematic Review

In modern times, work has started bleeding outside of corporate offices. The notion of a routine nine-to-five at a designated desk or workstation has become limited with the advent of non-traditional work cultures and environments. Computers and cloud storage facilities have introduced several 24x7 operations. Organizations offer various levels of flexibility with respect to workload and work timings. COVID-19 moved a lot of jobs into peoples’ homes– jobs that were considered impossible to perform from a remote location. In the face of all this, the working population continues to steadily grow older. This study aims to analyze the effects of traditional and non-traditional employment conditions on the present-day working population and Work-Life Balance (WLB). Also surveyed are some studies that offer solutions to common workplace ergonomic hazards, physiological as well as psychological. Content Analysis tools like maxQDA, VOS Viewer, CiteSpace and Google Ngram Viewer were used for this purpose.