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If Sending Christmas Cards Feels Like a Chore, Here’s How to Politely Opt Out

Success

Mailing holiday cards is a popular tradition. But amid a busy season, the activity can create more stress than joy. At minimum, there’s the business of purchasing, signing, addressing and mailing our greetings before the holidays arrive. People forget that we actually have agency to decide what our traditions are,” Kuehnle says.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

The results show that short-term absence reduced by almost 40 percent, with 87 percent of employees reporting improvement in their mental health and a reduction in workplace stress. A further 95 percent said that they feel more rested after having a three-day weekend. As one of his members of staff commented: “It’s about choice.

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Balancing Professionalism and Friendship in the Office: Guest Blog by Elaine Hirsch

Laughing all the Way to Work

We both went our separate ways: I moved out west with my young daughter and started working for an oil company and she got married, started a family and continued to work at the law enforcement agency we had both worked for. A few years later we reconnected and now we are the best of friends.

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