Workplace Stress
Workplace stress is a major concern for employers and health insurers, as well as the workers that suffer it.
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Make ‘Firebreaks’
I meet many people who are frantically busy. They wear their diaries and Filofaxes as badges of honour, proud to be indispensable and wanted by everyone.
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Become a team player
Many of us have to tread a fine path when dealing with work colleagues. Ideally, we would all work at the same pace and with the same intensity. At the end of each day everyone would go home happy…
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Stress Causes Memory Loss (and other stress-related news)
Scientists have discovered that if they play very irritating hissing noises to mice, the mice are then likely to forget where they can swim to safety while struggling to stay afloat in buckets of water …
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Stressbusting Books: What to read now
Stressbusting offers this brief guide to what to read and listen to on the topics of stress and stress-relief — just in time for the gift-giving season.
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Presenteeism: for goodness sake, go…
Once, bosses fretted about absenteeism and the problem of staff not turning up for work. Now they are starting to worry about ‘presenteeism‘, the long-hours culture and staff who simply won’t go home.
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Why Every Office Should Have A Dog
A dog in the office is one of the best ways of beating stress at work, advises a top stress expert. Reduced stress, lower blood pressure and the release of human feel-good hormones are just some of the reasons…
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Get a life, get a flexi-life
Flexible working is the buzz phrase of the 21st Century. You, too, can take control of your office hours…
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