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10 Healthy Habits: Why Not Now?

Success

For example, a pessimist in a minor traffic jam may experience a stress response that causes immediate and short-term reactions such as raised blood pressure. In the long term, however, chronic stress can have a negative impact on our physical and mental health. Target the kind of stress that’s unproductive. veggies and fruit.

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Corporations Continue to Cut Employee Benefits

Small Business Labs

  The  Towers Watson's 2013/2014 Global Benefits Attitude Survey has an interesting chart (below) showing the substantial reduction in benefits by U.S. Add in growing workloads and work related stress  and it's easy to see why so many employees are disengaged from their jobs. and start small businesses. 

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Economic Insecurity and the Decline of Babies

Small Business Labs

But they may go even lower in 2013. Centers for Disease Control indicate 2013's fertility may decline slightly compared to  2012.   Historically birth rates have declined during periods of economic stress such as the great depression and the major 1970s recession. .  This maintains the number of U.S.

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The Yin and Yang of Freelancing

Small Business Labs

New Data Reveals Why Freelance Writers are Smart from the Make a Living Writing blog provides an excellent summary of the information contained in the 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence report. In exchange, they have to deal with the stress, hard work and uncertainty. But I love it wholeheartedly.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

But according to a recent survey by Deloitte while 87 percent of organisations cite culture and engagement as one of their top challenges, almost two-thirds of executives do not feel they are effectively driving this desired culture within their business.

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The Backlash Against Sharing Economy Jobs

Small Business Labs

  In our interviews, surveys and focus groups independent workers almost always describe what we call the yin and yang - or two sides - of independent work (freelancing, self-employment, etc.).  At the same time, they tell us they are challenged by the stress, uncertainty and insecurity associated with independent work.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. but then I put the Practically Perfect PA survey out there. I was trying to ignore them.

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