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Commercial real estate lending hits ten year low

Workplace Insight

New lending for commercial real estate fell 33 per cent last year to its lowest level since 2013, according to the latest bi-annual report from Bayes Business School, (formerly Cass). Dr Lux expects that will cause ongoing stress in the market.

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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.

Health 246
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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

In 2013, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported a study that found students who traveled abroad showed increases in positive personality traits, including openness to experience and emotional stability. Yes, I’m the uptight stressed one, and he’s the infuriatingly open-to-whatever one. It can literally calm you.

Travel 306
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Administrative/Clerical: Aiming for the End of the Year

Office Dynamics

The fourth quarter of 2013 is fast approaching, so now is a good time to start preparing for the end of the year. Whether you work as an executive assistant or a file clerk, do these things now to reduce your stress level during the fourth quarter. Once the holiday season hits, you may be too busy to prepare for the review session.

Holidays 100
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The Stunning Growth of Small Business Globalization

Small Business Labs

Key "wow" producing quote: the share of exports by large multinational corporations dropped from 84 percent in 1977 to 50 percent in 2013. The report stresses that individuals and the self-employed are becoming increasingly globalized. Companies with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 97.8 percent

2018 100
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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. It’s quite a stressful job which people do not seem to acknowledge. Seen as a secretary.

2014 100
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Friday Conference

Office Dynamics

There were blue dots for water, green for fruits and veggies, dots for exercise and dots for stress reduction. ” Joan discussed having an inner circle and said that Office Dynamics International cared about our growth and development into whole, better people. The person with the most dots on their trackers at each table stood.

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