Ergonomics Strategy to Create Work-Life Balance

Abstract

As well as having an impact on human life and economic problems, pandemic COVID-19 also caused a new issue in work-life balance; the term “quiet quitting” has gone viral in the news. “Quiet quitting” is defined as doing the work essentially as specified in the job description (or less), nothing more. Work should benefit the family, community, corporations, and environment rather than the worker alone. However, as humans, workers have unique personalities; it looks like the butterfly wing effect. Beside physical, mental, and spiritual characteristics, every human being has intuitions that influence their consciousness in achieving life goals. As a result, ergonomics and human factors have found their niche in addressing work-life balance issues. Ergonomists take an approach to the three primary roles and the comprehensive role. The first is from the physical perspective with physical ergonomics, the second from the mental perspective with cognitive ergonomics, and the third from the strategic management perspective using organizational ergonomics. Finally, by combining those roles, macro-ergonomics, or holistic-ergonomics, can be used to influence corporate culture and the social environment. Since work design focuses on the worker (human center design), it would be more effective if ergonomics were actualized with the participatory ergonomics method.