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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice Atwal is a trailblazer in the health care industry.

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

The relationship between workers’ mental health and wellbeing and the social usefulness of the work undertaken will also be examined. The last Skills and Employment Survey took place in 2017. The growth of insecure work and the impact of technology on how workers are managed are additional areas that will be focused upon.

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The sector responds to the Spring Budget

Workplace Insight

David Williams, head of group risk at Towergate Health & Protection “The Spring Budget feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to recognise the enormous power of employee benefits in both reducing sickness and helping to improve the UK economy – both of which are key focus areas for the Government.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

Success

This kind of media avoidance is actually a rather popular method for reducing media strain on our mental health. If you expose yourself to less media and reduce the degree to which you fill your mind with pollutants—politics, controversy, natural disasters and tragedy, for example—your mental health may improve, as the thinking goes.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. The industries of women in business The industries these women settled into differed between the reports. of women-owned businesses.

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How To Design Workplaces For Neurodivergent Employees

Allwork

There is also a school of thought which says that for organisations to create and deliver truly inclusive technology, products, policies and so on, they need to have representatives from all minority groups as well as intersections between groups within their workforce. Barclays new Glasgow campus – Design by Motionspot.

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Episode 283: Well-Presented with Mike Pacchione

Productivityist

Created specifically for small business, Bambee provides you with a dedicated HR Manager that can craft your HR policy, and maintain your compliance, all for just one low monthly fee. There’s so much to wrap your head around and hiring an HR Manager is going to cost you – they command an average of seventy-thousand dollars a year!

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