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United Nations Agencies Offer Guidance To Address Workplace Mental Health

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United Nations agencies are warning that employers need to do much more to address mental health issues in the workplace. To help offer suggestions on how to support workers, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus created guidelines aimed at addressing negative workplace experiences. .

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VA Commands Workers Back To Office In A Foreboding Sign For Federal Employees

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VA is the first agency to make such an announcement, but other federal agencies are expected to follow, according to The Federal Times. There are strong moves by both the House and the Senate to impose stricter guidelines for federal workers that limit their ability to work remotely.

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Governments Are Pioneering the Flexible Work Revolution

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federal government has urged agencies to craft a balance between required in-person work and promoting remote work flexibilities. federal government has urged agencies to craft a balance between required in-person work and promoting remote work flexibilities. Similarly, the U.S. Second, flexibility stimulates productivity.

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Millions of people are living with poor air quality, placing their health and lives at risk

Workplace Insight

is one of six common pollutants monitored and regulated by environmental agencies worldwide due to the significant impacts to human health and the environment. guideline of 5 ?g/m3, guideline level, with 30 cities reporting annual averages less than 5 ?g/m3, guideline) and orange (3 to 5 times the WHO annual PM2.5

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The Hidden Costs of Unlimited PTO

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Some countries have very strict rules around paid time off and leave accrual systems,” Preston warns, “so do the research before implementing it into your environment.”. Lee Chambers , the founder of Essentialise , a workplace well-being and inclusion agency based in the UK, opted against an unlimited paid time off policy for his business.

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The Take Over of Green Marketing

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Consumers love products that in one way or another help the environment. According to the 2012 Cone Green Gap Trend Tracker, 69% of Americans take the environment into consideration when making choices about what products or services to buy. This demand for ‘green’ products and services has not gone unnoticed by corporate America.

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Why does colour psychology make so much difference to us?

Workplace Insight

For this reason, there are no proportion-shape-line-texture prediction agencies, and chromotherapy is not challenged by proportion-shape-line-texture therapies. Yet we still work on the basis that some guidelines about our emotive response to colour can be applied to the general population.

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