International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, Vol 4, no 6, pp 3070-3075 June 2023 International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews Journal homepage: www.ijrpr.com ISSN 2582-7421 Antecedent of Work-Life Balance on Employee: A Systematic Review Kiki Andi Karos TS 1 , Khoiriah Barokah 2 1,2 Master of Psychology, University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Malang, Indonesia DOI: https://doi.org/10.55248/gengpi.4.623.46543 A B S T R A C T Work-life balance is a state where employees choose to equally prioritize the demands of work and their personal life. Work-life balance still becomes an important research topic due to its developing issue. This study aims to identify the antecedents of work-life balance in employees. This qualitative study used a literature study method by collecting literature related to the antecedent of work-life balance from various sources of international journals. The researcher obtained 40 journals and filtered them based on the research topic. Then, it resulted in a total of 26 journals grouped into some sub-themes for further review. The results of this literature study showed that there were four categories of antecedents of work-life balance, namely demographic, individual, organizational, and environmental factors. The demographic factor came from the employee's demographic characteristics, while the individual factor came from within the employee. Meanwhile, the organizational factor is from the workplace’s internal and external organizations, and the environmental factors are from the environment around the employee. Keywords: work-life balance, antecedent, employee Introduction Hays Group (2022) reports that the problem of work-life balance becomes one of the reasons for employees to resign from their jobs during the Covid- 19 pandemic. Indeed, this causes decreased employee performance and eventually affects the companies. The Covid-19 pandemic has combined personal life and work life into the same physical space. This can divide the focus of employees on their perception of work and life as a whole. Therefore, they start to re-evaluate work factors that can balance their work and personal life. The implementation of work from home policy during the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the work-life balance of employees. This policy leads to a positive impact by increasing organizational productivity (Irawanto, Novianti, & Roz, 2021) and a negative impact considering the increasing number of challenges experienced by workers including managing the work-life balance (Palumbo, 2020). This global pandemic has forced both male and female employees to be able to manage changes in work patterns and find the right strategy to divide their time between work and family during the implementation of work from home policy (Rodríguez-Rivero, Yanez, Fernandez-Aller, & Carrasco-Gallego, 2020). The term ‘work-life balance’ was found in 1986 and its use in daily life remained sporadic over the years. Interestingly, work-life programs have existed since the 1930s, as stated in a book by Rosabeth Moss Kanter entitled "Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy". Then, researchers and organizations highlighted this work-life balance issue. Until the 1980s and 1990s, companies began to introduce work- life balance programs which first aimed to support women with children and have developed to the present (Kaur, 2013). Currently, work-life balance is often aimed at work and family. Trying to balance family and work responsibilities has become a challenge for people of various backgrounds. Felstead, Jewishon, Phizcklea, and Walters (2006) define work-life balance as a strategy to increase employee independence in coordination with work and non-work aspects of their lives. Conflict in work life is a form of conflict between roles (role conflict), where the demands of a work role can interfere with the demands of the home role or free time with family (Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985). This further triggers the tensions because there is no agreement regarding the domain of home and work, which has unknowingly increased among employees in most economic sectors (Lewis, Gambles, and Rapoport (2007). In other words, the issue of work-life balance is highly considered by employees, particularly to manage conflicts between work and family responsibilities. Therefore, this issue becomes a serious challenge for organizations. Based on the description above, employees and organizations need to know the causes of work-life balance issues. Many studies have explained the causes of work-life balance but it is necessary to conceptualize this issue to be more easily understood. Therefore, this literature study focuses on antecedents of work-life balance in employees. This study is expected to provide an overview and information for related parties.