Workplace Ergonomics, Well-Being, and Employee Retention: Assessing the Role of Organizational Support and Work-Life Balance

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out how ergonomics and workplace practices affect talent turnover, so as uncover organizational factors contributing to employee contentment and loyalty. In this paper, we use structural equation modeling to investigate many potential predictors of the dependent variable, work-related injury rates. These predictors include workstation design, lifting methods in use, task variation duration between tasks, anti-fatigue mat use, ergonomic tools use, scheduled breaks, and, just as important in one's job as home or your personal life, other types of activities. Results indicate that retention is influenced significantly by ergonomic factors, while the evidence does not seem entirely clear around throughput, and physiological hinting is thus conflicting. The research displays that employees placed in low physical effort and high comfort offices remain longer. The relationship is also reinforced by work-life balance as a moderator; indeed, workers who feel that their personal well-being is taken into account by the firm are more satisfied. Testing the framework's general nature and appropriateness is also through the use of some of these model fit indexes, such as RMSEA, CFI, TLI, SRMR, GFI Organizations had better in ergonomics and nurturing policies. That will bring physical comfort and well-being. The need for such new company arrangements suggests itself even in some of this theoretical discourse. However, this study had its limitations. First, it is a cross-sectional design. Second, there can be much interference between all the covariates in measuring interactions, and in the kind of circumstances under which the data were collected. Subsequent research may expand on these findings by introducing further dimensions of the workplace and also conducting longitudinal investigations across industry areas, which could yield additional knowledge about retention.