Every year the UK workforce wastes 17.5M hours of work on financial stress. Neyber (a UK financial services provider) surveyed 10,000 UK employees and released some interesting information regarding their finances. 67% of the respondents believed that their employers do not care about their financial well-being. Over 5,000 employees even …
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12 DOs and 6 DONT’s to increase your Success and Happiness
Happiness entails focused work! So does success. According to Marc Chernoff, happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present. Happy people do a lot of things. They spend time expressing gratitude, cultivating optimism, practicing kindness, nurturing loving relationships, committing to meaningful goals, savoring …
Read More »Happiness at Work: It’s Time to Move!
Stand Up for Happiness at Work: It’s Time to Move! We often think of happiness as a state of mind, but our physical bodies have a large impact on our well-being that goes beyond our physical health. Our bodies can either help or hinder our performance and well-being, on the …
Read More »Wellbeing In The Workplace: A Winning Idea
According to Tilly Hetherington – Operations Executive at CVWOW, wellbeing is increasingly featuring on the agenda of employers and employees alike, with countless studies indicating a direct correlation between the happiness of a workforce and the subsequent success of the business. As a result, many organisations already have structured wellbeing strategies in …
Read More »Women in the Workplace: The secret to balancing career and family
According to Andrew Pearce of MarketWatch, for some women in London’s financial sector, the secret to balancing career and family has been a partner who stays at home. That’s according to the findings of Finance News’s sixth annual survey of women working in London’s financial sector. It’s not common. Just …
Read More »VIDEO Series: Mindfulness for Senior Executives
Harvard University social psychology professor Ellen Langer says organizations can make better decisions by setting the right context. Ellen Langer is an artist and Harvard psychology professor who authored 11 books on the illusion of control, perceived control, successful aging and decision-making. “We have many, many studies that suggest that …
Read More »Presentation: Improving engagement and happiness using digital collaboration | HR Tech World Congress
Self-Employment: Your own little career nirvana
Acording to David Thornhill of recruitmentbuzz, statistics show that people who work for themselves are generally happier at what they do than those who work full time – even if they take home a little less in their pay packet each month during the early stages of their business. According …
Read More »VIDEO: Magic Leap: Welcome to a new way to start your day
Welcome to a new way to start your day. Magic Leap technology without use of special effects or compositing. According to Wired, soon the workplace will be equipped with virtual screens.
Read More »The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
Theodore Kinni of readingwritingmanagement.blogspot, comments on the book: The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success (Harper One, 2016), by Emma Seppälä. In it, Seppälä, the science director of Stanford School of Medicine’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, argues that the pursuit of happiness …
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