Understanding the importance of a good work-life balance is essential for both employers and employees. Proven benefits include increased productivity, reduced work absences and a happier, less-stressed workforce. Who wouldn’t want to experience these benefits?
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Times are changing. Health is becoming substantially more of a consideration in the modern workplace. With sitting down for too long being linked with heart disease, office chairs being linked with back pain and staring at a computer for too long being linked with poor eyesight, employers are now more aware of employee health and safety. Health experts recommend that getting up from your seat and screen once every half an hour, for two minutes, can help prevent many of these negative health effects.
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What is your office doing to help the environment?
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Studies show that workers lose, on average, 21.5 minutes a day due to conversational distractions. A noisy office has also been proven to increase stress levels and dramatically decrease employee productivity – workers can be up to 66% less productive when exposed to just one nearby conversation.
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Over the last decade or so, the office has seen some massive advances. With the increase in cloud services, wireless computing, remote working, and so on, it seems that things are only going to keep on changing – although maybe not as much as some people predict (not just yet anyway).
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With 109,000 businesses in total and a 40% growth in its economy over the last ten years, it’s no surprise that the Leeds City Region is becoming a business haven. Especially for businesses that operate in international markets.
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As a business, it can often be difficult to establish credibility. But, brand credibility is an essential part of the process of bringing in new customers. Many marketing experts note it as one of the main psychological factors that can trigger the buying impulse of consumers.