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Background: This world has been witnessing a catastrophic event since the dawn of the year 2020, called COVID 19. This deadly virus not only spread disease throughout the world, but also ignites an extreme level of stress to the human kind. Medical and Paramedical professionals across the globe has been immensely pressurized to find the best solution with a very brief time. Despite knowing the deadly outcome, medical and paramedical professionals have been working day and night with patients, which tremendously raise the stress among them. In this context work life balance plays a very important role in order to maintain employees� job satisfaction by lessening stress. The study was conducted in a few health care industries such as occupational health centers in industry, private clinics, and private hospitals in and around Chennai. Aim: It is to identify the critical work life balance (WLB) factors and to analyze the primary data on these factors Influencing WLB in the health care industries. Materials and Methods: Systematic random sampling method was adopted to collect 56 samples using a developed questionnaire. Thirty Five variables influencing work life balance were identified in the questionnaire, validated and the response of the medical and paramedical staff was measured by applying Likert type five-point scale. Statistical Analysis: The data was analyzed by the IBM-SPSS version-20 and the Mini-Tab Version-16. Descriptive Statistics, Factor Analysis using Principal Component Analysis with Varimax Rotation and Pearson�s correlation tests were performed. Results: The factor analysis revealed that six factors are the predominant factors that influence work life balance in health care industries. The result of correlation analysis also confirms the positive correlation among the above six factors and it is found to be at 5% level of significance. Conclusions and Implications: This study has demonstrated that the work life balance components were varying based on the type of management, organizations, facilities etc. It is concluded that there is a significant level of association and hence the management in health care industries has to consider these factors and focus more on Occupational Health and HRM policies and practices suitably to create conducive, comfortable & productive work environment.