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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

Success

Oxytocin helps us connect, feel empathy and trust; serotonin regulates anxiety, happiness and well-being ; and endorphins reduce pain and stress while boosting mood and self-esteem. economy up to $187 billion every year between lost productivity and health care and medical costs.

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Most people now at risk of poor mental health as a result of social exclusion

Workplace Insight

More than half of people in the UK have experienced social exclusion in the past year, leading to poor mental health and wellbeing, according to a new report from BUPA in partnership with ParalympicsGB. Notably, people living with a disability (72 percent) are more likely to experience exclusion.

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Knowledge workers have a particularly unhealthy relationship with work

Workplace Insight

Three quarters of UK knowledge workers say they have an unhealthy relationship with work and two thirds of those say that work has had a negative effect on their health and wellbeing. Physical: Mental and emotional health can make it harder to maintain physical well-being. When they’re not happy at all, that number rises to 91 percent.

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What Really Drives Employee Engagement

Energage

In more than 40 regions across the United States, our employee engagement survey points to the same three statements: Direction: “I believe this company is headed in the right direction.”. It increases motivation, job satisfaction, self-esteem—even overall employee health and well-being.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

In a recent survey, Jobvite found that before the recession, more than 60 percent of GenY candidates wanted a higher compensation than offered. Destroying someone's self esteem doesn't actually make them better. Many have no health insurance, many can't find a well paying job, or even be independent.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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Anyone who has been in therapy at any point during the past century has likely heard that request, now a go-to punch line for an entire industry of mental health. But focusing on why people are miserable—and reliving that misery one 45-minute session at a time—in order to get happy became, well, depressing for many in the mental health field.

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