THE INFLUENCE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND MINDFULNESS TOWARDS WORK ENGAGEMENT IN WORKING’S MOTHERS IN GARMENT INDUSTRY OF PT. BRA.

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The no of working’s mothers is kept on increasing time to time. Work Engagement on garment industry of workforce still having problem nowadays with various reason. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of work life-balance and mindfulness to work engagement of working mothers in the garment company PT. BRA, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The subjects of this study were 553 working’s mothers with criteria minimum a year working with 1 child. Data were collected with work engagement scale, work-life balance scale, and mindfulness scale. AMOS SEM analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings indicate that work life-balance is positively influence to work engagement, while mindfulness is negatively influence to work engagement. The contribution work-life balance with work engagement is 41,8%, and simultaneously effecting work life-balance and mindfulness on work engagement are 17,3%. Work engagement and work life balance working mothers indicate low while mindfulness is high. Most of the subjects are millennial mothers with 1 child, high school education background, and sewer division with regional minimum wage.    Connections between high mindfulness and work engagement is not affecting, therefore they consider that work life-balance is essential. Therefore, it is essential for working’s mothers to improve capabilities of mindfulness skill at both area as employee and mother to get better work life-balance to increase productivity among millennial working’s mothers.