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Volunteering Can Combat Loneliness and Boost Your Mental Health—Just Consider These 5 Things Before You Start

Success

How volunteering can help mental health Research shows that volunteering helps mental health by reducing stress and increasing positive thoughts. When the organization’s executive director left, Agan had to lead a 13-person search committee for the new executive director. Last year, when the U.S. It’s the quality that matters most.

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How to Plan Events Your Team Will Love (Without the Stress)

Eat Your Career

This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. I wanted to take an opportunity to share some ideas to take the stress out of event planning, so you can create events that everyone in your office can enjoy… including you! Set clear goals.

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Sick pay reform should encourage people back into work, government claims

Workplace Insight

A parliamentary committee of MPs has called for a ‘long-overdue’ boost to statutory sick pay (SSP), emphasising the need to strike a delicate balance between workers’ wellbeing and employers’ financial constraints. The cross-party committee contends that all workers, regardless of income, should be eligible for SSP.

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Hefty fine for Amazon has implications for employee surveillance policy

Workplace Insight

Among the examples of such monitoring by Amazon management was the recording of data captured by employees’ handheld scanners, which tracked their activity to such a precise degree that it led to workers potentially having to justify each break that they took during the working day.

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Take the “Jingle” out of Holiday Stress

The Office Professionals Place

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Take the “Jingle&# out of Holiday Stress Are you planning the holiday party in your office? Or are you stressed just thinking about the holidays? Form a committee, then within the committee form subcommittees for activities throughout the event. Don’t go it alone.

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Stress Epidemic--30 Ways to Chill Out!

Office Dynamics

Almost every magazine I pick up has an article on reducing stress, and the “YOU” docs (Oz and Roizen) list stress as the #4 health risk factor on their list of the top 4. I’ve spent the better part of my adult life learning techniques to manage my own stress. First a word in defense of stress: not all stress is bad!

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Stress Epidemic--30 Ways to Chill Out!

Office Dynamics

Almost every magazine I pick up has an article on reducing stress, and the “YOU” docs (Oz and Roizen) list stress as the #4 health risk factor on their list of the top 4. I’ve spent the better part of my adult life learning techniques to manage my own stress. First a word in defense of stress: not all stress is bad!

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