The job-stress connection isn’t new. It’s been around as long as the concept of employment. So if it’s always been there, why should businesses worry about … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Coping With the Most Stressful Time of the Year
Editor’s note: This is the last Weekly Wrap for this year. We’ll return again in January 2015. Everyone knows that the end of the year … Read more
Can You Get Away From the Job and Relax? Finding the Key to That Puzzle
“So Dad, now you can relax since you have all this time off. I am taking my vacation the same time so we can both hang out.” On my 12 hour flight from … Read more
Mindfulness: It’s the Key Quality Managers Need During the Holidays
The holiday season is upon us, and many of us have been relishing the traditional cheer, treats, gifts and parties that accompany this time of year. It’s … Read more
How Many Hours at Work Are Simply Too Many Hours at Work?
An article last week on NFL.com spoke to the work schedule of Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, which averages 100 hours per week! Here’s how … Read more
Do We Really Know How Much We’re Subjected to Workplace Stress?
According to the scientists, stress kills. Stress affects our brain chemistry and our neurological system and makes us gain weight in all the wrong places, … Read more
Is It Time For a Pro-Smoking Policy in Your Workplace?
Seems to me the world of business just keeps getting more and more stressful. Most employers are trying to do more with less and this alone equates to … Read more
What the Annual American Time Use Survey Says About Our Work Ethic
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson For the past several years, I’ve reviewed and … Read more
13 Easy and (Mostly) Low-Cost Employee Wellness Changes for 2013
Right about now, your employees are wondering whether they’ll keep their new resolutions or dust off the old ones and give them one more go. Even your … Read more
Help Your Workforce Make a Stress-less New Year’s Resolution
I was talking with the COO of a busy consulting firm who told me her husband had recently had a heart attack. While they were in the hospital waiting to … Read more