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4 Friendship Apps to Help You Connect with New People

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic is an obvious contributor to the declining number and quality of friendships, other factors stacked up well before that health crisis—particularly among adults who have to juggle career, family and personal obligations. Since its founding, Peanut has expanded to welcome women navigating fertility and menopause.

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9 Pro Tips for Avoiding Loneliness When You Work From Home

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I try to schedule lunch or coffee with a friend once a week in order to have a little socialization on my calendar. Health psychologist and neuroscientist Sabina Brennan can vouch for the benefits of having dogs. “I This article was published in July 2019 and has been updated. My dogs always give me something to smile about.”

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How to Prevent Burnout

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Stress is part of everyday modern life, but the never-ending to-do lists, demands and added responsibilities wreak havoc on our health and productivity. . Travel Association , 768 million vacation days went unused by employees in 2019, and 236 million of those had to be forfeited entirely. The important term here is “unrelieved.”

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Work Sabbaticals: The Latest Nonprofit Retention Strategy

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In December 2019, after years of requesting a sabbatical, my board of directors approved a 12-week paid sabbatical planned for June 2020, after our legislative session concluded. I live by my (multiple) alarms, to-do lists and calendar. What I discovered on sabbatical. Unstructured time was an unexpected benefit of my sabbatical.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

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In particular, traditional business financing options like bank loans have been declining since 2020 — where they fell 6% from 2019 (43% to 37%, respectively). The catch is that a business’s fiscal year does not have to line up with the traditional calendar year. Why is that? What are the advantages of debt financing?

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

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No company just lopped a day off their calendar. Rich Leigh, whose Gloucester firm Radioactive PR moved to a four-day week in 2019, told me, “I can’t move for great resumes from great people” who were wanting to escape London but remain in the industry. Instead, they had to meaningfully redesign how they worked.

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Ryan Anderson VP of Global Research & Insights MillerKnoll | The Return to Office & Reengineering Cities

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But as it pertains to kind of the health and vibrancy of cities, the move towards more walkable cities, 15 minutes cities, et cetera, started well before the pandemic. We’re serving nonprofits health care systems, schools, even restaurants and other environments. And actually, a lot of these principles transcend all those.

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