Here's how you can foster a healthy work-life balance among your team members.

Establish core hours during which all team members must be available for meetings and collaboration. This structure ensures that key interactions and communications happen smoothly while still allowing employees the flexibility to manage the rest of their workday according to their preferences.

Foster a healthy work-life balance among your team members by promoting a culture that values personal well-being alongside productivity. Encourage regular breaks and respect after-hours boundaries. Offer flexible work schedules or remote work options to accommodate personal needs. Lead by example, demonstrating a balance in your own work habits. Provide resources for stress management and wellness programs. Recognize and reward efficiency, not just long hours. Encourage the use of vacation time and ensure workloads are manageable. Communicate openly about the importance of work-life balance and regularly check in with team members to address any concerns. By supporting a balanced approach, it will help you improve job satisfaction.

Flexible work hours is a big benefit to employees and can be a big productivity benefit for the business, especially if the flexibility is reciprocal.

Ensure all remote employees have access to the necessary technology and resources. This includes reliable internet connections, appropriate software, and hardware such as laptops and ergonomic equipment.

Remote work, with flexible hours, is the ultimate in work life balance potential. It's not for everybody, and you need to have the right environment at home, but for most people, with a little work on creating the right environment, you get maximum productivity and maximum personal/family time.

Culture is a funny thing. If the culture puts value on time off, people will take it. If it doesn't, people will feel bad about taking all of their time, even though it's theirs to take. I've focused on creating a culture that truly values time off and our company does not suffer in the least for it. Time off for me, is not earned. It's something that is a part of the package when staff agree to give their time to the company. Everyone gets the same and is supported in taking it. There's no seniority bumps or negotiations and its a heck of a lot more than feels comfortable.

If you want your team to take time off, as a leader you need to take time off, and share with your team the importance of taking time off. Model the behavior you want to encourage.

Setting boundaries is especially important for remote work. Remote work is highly suseptible to blending work and personal life and it requires discipline to keep the two separate. Physical separation of work and personal life in your home helps.

One thing I have found helpful is setting boundaries My home life is not my work life and vise versa I have different discussions with my colleagues than I have with friends and family

From my personal experience - lead by example is just the corner stone. Just give an example: when company owners are saying that company suffers and they can not pay fair salaries right now and than they're going for a vacation for 5 times this year there will be questions. Same applies to everything: if founders/owners pays respect, have great boundaries and keep work life balance in place they will naturally build the same culture with unwritten rules, everyone will feel and follow

If you sit at your desk super-stressed from dawn till dusk, you'll convey a number of messages. 1 - operations are not efficient, and nobody wants to stay on a rocky or sinking ship. 2 - you don't value your own time and work-life balance, so there's little chance of your valuing others. 3 - your conscientious team members will feel guilty about the standard 9-5, and feel compelled to work longer hours, and turn into you.

I originally come from restaurant ownership. Everyone in that industry says its too hard to find people. They don't want to work, they aren't consistent, etc. It's simply not true. I have never had a hard time hiring people. Have only posted job ads a few times in over 10 years and had an average tenure of over 5 years. Treat people with respect, set proper expectations, remove bad apples and lead instead of manage and you won't have a problem.