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Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Employers today are critically analyzing the stress management issues that contribute to lower job performance of employees originating from dissatisfaction and high turnover ultimately affecting both organizational goals as well as family life of employees. The main reason for stress appears to be either failure to balance between career goals and family responsibility. This imbalance ultimately leads to increased number of family disputes, divorce cases, failure at corporate level and so on. The aim of the research was to find out the relationship between independent variable - work-life balance and dependent variable - job stress. The findings of the study revealed that the incidence of job stress was directly associated with the level of work-life balance. The result of hypothesis testing rejected the null hypothesis of no association between these two variables meaning there by the acceptance of alternate hypothesis of a strong association between these two variables. At the same time result of correlation coefficient between these two variables was highly negative which was interpreted that high work life balance has less job stress establishing the fact that a proper work-life balance certainly lessens job stress. The incidence of job stress in the female employees of IT industry in Jodhpur was more as compared to the male employees of the same age group.