Personal and Professional Lives Differentiations and How it is Affecting Employees

Personal and professional lives differentiations, we hear normally but never see its implementation in professional lives. Mostly in my entire career, one dilemma I have observed, people do not know what they are doing and why? What’s the purpose? and cross their limits and under the impression of we reserve authority and power do very unethical and inhuman things to common people or layman. 

The question arises, how and why do they get this power over normal people to act inhumanly and who gives them authority? There are clear guidelines anywhere you go be it professional setups, multinational organizations, and all the established institutions of what you can do and what you can not for both sides be it employer or employee and be it genders. The dilemma is people are tempted to do the opposite of guidelines and sometimes to this extent which can cause human health or life.

This diaspora is not just creating chaos among humans and also common people who just want to have their normal and happy life and want to excel in career. I feel pity for such mindsets who can not draw a line between personal and professional, friends and strangers, jealousy and contentedness, dos or don’ts, what they can do and what they can’t. 

This battle between personal and professional goes to this extent that, someone who is having artificial power over someone would try to play and hide their shortcomings and sometimes biggest crimes or offenses. Being a human one should have leverage when going through any crisis, personal life issues, health issues but if one group tries to exploit that natural cause or process not just, I feel bad or sorry for such illiterate and disgusting mindsets in fact they should be accounted for their bad behaviors strongly.    

I’m a strong supporter of human rights activists and also women rights, I believe women are still suffering everywhere from least developed countries to most developed countries, they are mistreated, badly spoken, their rights are not properly given, they still are considered as objects, even most famous ones who have their say and impact in society for years are the ones who are mistreated and labeled very bad “problem” etc.

In many and different organizations, I have worked and especially as a professional working woman and writer, I have noticed one thing men are unnecessarily given authority and power over women which they don’t deserve, women are different in personalities they don’t appreciate and welcome unnecessarily bad behaviors, labeling, blames and ill intentions.

Independence and choice to live your life and what to do in your personal life as a writer, journalist, social activities, community service, modeling, chilling with friends or just having your own time have nothing to with professional life. 

Employees get frustrated, annoyed and agitated when their boundaries of personal lives are crossed and the employer tends to take unnecessary advantage on the employee under the wrong impression of “ownership”. No one owns anyone, no one can control anyone, no one is in charge of anyone’s life, it’s “you”, “I” or “we” who can do things. 

As an employer and employee both need to know their limits, rights and obligations. Know their role in society, it is beyond just earning profits or making money. The role is to play the actual role of the institution, know what is bothering employees, understand your employees, establish office decorum and discipline and also develop team working mindsets which is acceptance of everyone’s profiles. People want to be respected, especially women, and if they don’t feel the secure and respected team can not work properly and show results.