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The significance of women’s health is increasingly acknowledged in the modern workplace

Workplace Insight

Women, on average, outlive men but, as reported by the World Economic Forum ( WEF , 2024), spend approximately 25 percent of their lives in poor health. According to the WEF, addressing the disparities in women’s health could dramatically reduce this statistic, enhancing the lives of billions globally.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

Success

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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Are We Becoming a Part-Time Nation?

Small Business Labs

  As of October 2012, about 27 million Americans worked part-time.   Other industries we expect to grow over the next decade, such as health care and personal services, also employ a higher percentage of part-time workers than the average industry. In 2002, roughly 18% of all part-timers were teens aged 16 to 19.

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