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Many people think workplace is a greater source of stress than a relationship breakdown

Workplace Insight

A new poll claims that workplace stress is seen as having a greater impact by many people, compared to relationship breakdowns. According to the survey conducted by Westfield Health, more than a quarter of workers (27 percent) ranked their job as more stressful than a relationship breakdown (8 percent). As a result, an astounding 17.9

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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

Allwork

Remote work has been found to reduce stress and help workers break the glass ceiling – but it does still have some drawbacks, including physical ailments from using inadequate home furniture. . Remote work reduces stress by 39%. . Working from Home Significantly Reduces Stress . & Lin, P., 2021). . 2021). .

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Would You Risk Your Life to Save a Stranger?

Success

The 22-year-old engineering student, who describes himself as “quiet and private,” was working as a building monitor at Seattle Pacific University on June 5, 2014, when a gunman began firing at random. For some heroes, their knee-jerk reactions have cost them their lives. So they acted.

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Our Totally Free Thank You Gift

Office Dynamics

As we prepare to say goodbye to 2014 and head into 2015, Office Dynamics International plans to celebrate our 25 th year in very big ways! This is the fastest and most cost effective way to get a free gift into your hands. If you’ve known us for any length of time, you know, a lot has happened in these last 24 years. Total Value: $265.

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Poor air quality affects chess players, and it might be affecting you too

Workplace Insight

This carries implications for anyone who makes decisions under pressure in polluted areas and may increase the global economic cost associated with air pollution. The World Bank estimates this cost to be US$8.1 But the recent research implies that poor air quality may be linked to a reduction in cognitive functioning. trillion (£6.7

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Is America "The World's First Poor Rich Country"?

Small Business Labs

Second, Americans bear the risks of paying those unaffordable costs to an extreme degree, bearing the risks that institutions should, and so those risks are now ruinously high. Both also stress how various forms of economic uncertainty and instability are impacting individuals, families and society overall.   The 9.9%

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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. Intense global competition coupled with economic uncertainty and volatility means corporations will continually focus on cost reduction. and start small businesses. 

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