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Work life balance were once considered as a priority. As the world changes, the increase of work pressure has made work-life balance impossible. The purpose of this research was to identify the factors that influenced the employee satisfaction. The range of definition of job satisfaction means that there are many ways job satisfaction can be defined. The research design that was used in this research project were quantitative methods. Quantitative method was suitable because it was able to gather a large sum of data. The descriptive statistics were used to provide a brief description of the samples and the measures that were taken in the particular study. Reliability test, normality test, correlation analysis and multiple regression test were used in analyzing the data. Overall analysis showed that the all the items in this research were reliable and consistent. The normality test showed that the data for skewness value and kurtosis value were all within their range and most of the item were normally distributed. There was a positive relationship between all the independent variables and dependent variables. Information that was collected from this research will deemed useful as it may be a way to create strategies to improve the employees well-being.
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