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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

Allwork

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines workplace harassment as “unwelcome or offensive conduct that is detrimental to an employer’s work performance, professional advancement, and/or mental health.”. The continuing scourge of sexual harassment at work. As of 2021 , only 17 U.S.

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Combat Workplace Burnout by Setting Better Boundaries

Success

Time and again, we’ve seen how the weight of expectations can impact people’s mental health. For example, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open this past May, citing mental health concerns. Companies like Kickstarter are also noticing the toll that overworking takes on employees’ mental health.

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

Workplace Insight

The World Health Organization estimate that 99 percent of the world’s population breathe in polluted air each day. Some of the threats air pollution poses to human health are already known. The researchers studied the performance of 121 chess players across three separate tournaments between 2017 and 2019. in the air.

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

Ideas.Ted

Most were small companies with fewer than 100 people, and they included creative and professional service firms but also software startups, restaurants, factories and nursing homes — industries where overwork is common and deadlines can be inflexible. M]y life is better off, thanks to the 4-day work week,” one employee wrote. “I

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Some questions about AI, a world drowning in content and the human centipede of creativity

Workplace Insight

When asked in 2019 about its business model, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had this to say: Connie Loizos, Silicon Valley Editor of TechCrunch, asks Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT), in 2019, about OpenAI's business model. These doubts have been there for a long time.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Between 2015-2019, Iceland ran two large-scale trials of a reduced working week of 35-36 hours with no reduction in pay. UK recruitment firm, MRL Consulting Group took a different approach, by closing its offices every Friday for a six-month trial in 2019. Global trials. Instead, look at the results.”.

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