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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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Her manager, she said, would make sexualized jokes, resulting in what Watson felt was a hostile work environment. “It The experience took a toll on her mental health. She was put on medication and had to take a few weeks off from work. A trauma-like effect on Black women’s health For more than 15 years, Sierra Carter, Ph.D.,

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How To Design Impactful Offices? Prioritize ESG Goals

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A myriad of certification systems can make it difficult to compare the health and environmental properties of building materials. Cork walls, green building materials and reused office furniture are ways BBC Studios’ new Bristol office promotes health and well-being. The process needed to be simpler.

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Bullying and the Effect on Your Brain

Bonnie Low-Krayman

Decades of scientific research document the physical harm to brains from all forms of bullying and abuse. Bullying is becoming a medical issue in the workplace, especially for assistants. A bullied brain is one that feels unsafe and dependent on others to acquire a sense of security which is critical to mental and physical health.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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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. Dr. Rajinder Atwal Medical Director, CEO, Founder, Family Physician, M.D.,

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

The online site legal site Avvo recently announced a new service that covers routine legal scenarios for business, family and immigration, with fixed-price offerings  starting at $39 for a 15-minute advice session or $149 for a document review. Doctor on Demand , for example, provides video medical consultation service. 

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5 Whole-Brain Design Strategies To Make Your Workplace More Innovative And Efficient

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Additionally, advances in medical and mental health diagnostics have led some experts to estimate that as many as one in five people have a neurodivergent condition ( Doyle, 2020 ), and there is a widespread recognition that everyone — including people considered to be “neurotypical” — is somewhere on the neurodiversity spectrum ( Fitzell, 2021 ).

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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Anyone who has been in therapy at any point during the past century has likely heard that request, now a go-to punch line for an entire industry of mental health. But focusing on why people are miserable—and reliving that misery one 45-minute session at a time—in order to get happy became, well, depressing for many in the mental health field.

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